The bear butterfly gets its name from the appearance of the caterpillar, which is covered with thick hairs that resemble bear fur. Large fur lumps really look more like animal cubs than insects.
Features of the family
All bears are relatively large in size. They have a plump body. The front wings are triangular in shape, in most species they are brightly colored. The hind wings are smaller and often have a modest coloration. A calm or resting bear butterfly folds its wings into a house, hiding their brightness.
An important feature inherent in the entire family is toxicity. The blood of these butterflies has a bitter taste - this is for those who did not understand the signal of the variegated wings and nevertheless decided to attack. Most venomous creatures look catchy, as if warning predators about their peculiarity. It is difficult to digest such prey, it can cause irritation in the digestive system or allergies.
Young people are no less protected. The caterpillar of a bear butterfly not only has bitter poisonous blood, but also its hairs emit a strong irritating substance. It is not only not worth chewing, but even touching it. Thanks to this feature, both adult butterflies and caterpillars have practically no natural enemies.
Caterpillar
Before turning into butterflies, the caterpillars have to do a lot of work and perform an important task - to gorge themselves for the future. Therefore, they are omnivorous and gluttonous. Caterpillars eat shrubs and herbaceous plants, tree foliage. This damages the plantings.
Before pupation, the caterpillar weaves a loose silky cocoon. She weaves her own fallen hairs into the walls. The pupa is motionless inside the cocoon.
Dipper butterfly lifestyle
Bears are common all over the world. Entomologists know about 11 thousand species of the bear family. At least 60 species of these butterflies live in the European part of Russia.
Most bears are nocturnal or live, but there are certain species that are awake during the day, although such a minority.
It is noteworthy that the oral apparatus is not developed at all in female bears. Adult sexually mature individuals - adults - do not eat food.
Bear Mistress
In the middle lane, the lady bear butterfly is very common. It is quite large, the wingspan reaches 5.5 cm.
These butterflies live in shady and humid places in June and July. They inhabit ravines, river banks, forest glades and clearings. Caterpillars eat the leaves of shrubs and herbaceous plants: willows, blackberries, strawberries. Pupation occurs in the spring.
Kaya dipper
The kaya bear is no less common. The representatives of the species are very beautiful. The wingspan of up to 8 cm makes them one of the largest in our country.
The front wings of the kaya bear are coffee-brown, with white constrictions. Large black-blue peas are located on the red hind wings.
Kayi bears live in late summer. Their black furry caterpillars appear in the fall, survive the winter, and turn into butterflies in the summer. At the moment of danger, the caterpillars curl up into a ring, protecting all their important organs, exposing poisonous hairs outside. Caterpillars weave their cocoons under snags, knocked down tree trunks.
American polar bear
A beautiful snow-white bear butterfly with a shaggy head is actually a formidable pest for agriculture and forestry. This species, originally from North America, came to Europe in the middle of the last century, from where it spread across the territory of Ukraine, the south and west of Russia, and penetrated into Turkmenistan and other countries of the Middle East. Experts believe that this could not have happened due to natural reasons and the butterflies came to the mainland with cargo transported across the Atlantic.
As this butterfly is sometimes called, it has an average size, its wingspan does not exceed 3.6 cm. Ecologists and the quarantine service are taking measures to prevent the further spread of this pest.
Leopard bear
This butterfly is found in the eastern United States. Its wingspan reaches 8 cm, which makes it one of the largest members of the family.
Dipper Hebe
A common species of bears, Hebe, is found in the steppe zone. This bear is a rural butterfly and can be seen at night, from May to July.
Hebe's wingspan reaches 5.5 cm. Her front wings are light, with dark constrictions. The hind wings are red, decorated with dark spots.
Gloomy Cave Butterfly
The Transcaspian grim bear is a very unusual butterfly. It owes its name to both nondescript appearance and lifestyle. This insect spends most of its life on the walls of caves and stalactites growing on them. At night, this butterfly gets out of the shelter and often flies up to tourist camps, attracted by the light of bonfires. It is noteworthy that caterpillars and pupae live far from caves, preferring steppe overgrown with wormwood and forbs.
This species is still poorly studied. And other representatives of bears keep many secrets.
Bear butterflies
As a rule, these are medium-sized butterflies, sometimes large. Usually with a bright pattern of spots and stripes. Why was this gentle creature named so? The fact is that the caterpillars of the bears are covered with thick dark hairs, like wool. There are over 6,000 species in this family, found in all parts of the world.
In the big dipper, the wings span up to 8 centimeters. They are brown, with a yellow pattern along the anterior margin, the hind wings are yellow, with a black pattern, the abdomen is red. This butterfly is now rare, but it was once very common in Europe. Caterpillars hibernate twice before pupating.
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Bears: mint and village
They feed mainly on the leaves of honeysuckle and bird cherry, as well as other low-growing plants.
The kaya bear has a span of more than 6 centimeters. Its front wings are brown with a yellow-white pattern. The abdomen and hind wings are usually brick-red with shiny black spots. The caterpillar is hairy and dark brown; it is not very legible in food. This butterfly is very widespread in Europe.
The Trans-Caspian gloomy bear is an amazing insect also called the cave butterfly. Butterfly in the cave! This in itself is unusual. No, of course, some butterflies living in mountainous areas often hide under the arches of caves, from the scorching summer heat. But the bear is gloomy, this is a special case, she lives in a cave. Butterflies hang on the walls, as well as on staloctites and stalogmites. At night, they leave their shelters and sometimes fly into the light from the campfire of tourists who have explored the caves. But the most mysterious thing is that the hairy caterpillars of this butterfly were found very far from the caves, and lived on wormwood.
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Bear butterflies (Arctiidae) are a large family; about 8 thousand of their species are known all over the world, which is almost one and a half times more than the number of species of all modern mammals! They are distributed all over the world, and in the European part of Russia there are at least 60 species of bears.
Bear butterflies: features of the family
The family owes its name to caterpillars, whose bodies are covered with long dark brown hairs so densely that they seem to be dressed in a bearskin. In most caterpillars of these butterflies, the hairs, collected in tufts-tassels, sit on special projections-warts. Such a “woolen coat” protects the female bear caterpillars from enemies. Caterpillars lead a relatively secretive lifestyle, feeding mainly on grasses, and in lichen bears they switched to feeding on mosses or lichens growing on tree trunks.
Bears are medium to large butterflies with a plump body. Large species of this family are very bright and variegated, but many of the smaller species are gray and inconspicuous. The front wings are triangular, the hind wings are smaller. Almost all female bears are evening and nocturnal. Let's take a closer look at some of the most interesting species.
Kaya dipper
One of the most famous representatives of the family is the kaya bear (Arctia caja). Its habitat includes Europe, Asia and North America. This species is common in the central part of Russia, as well as in Siberia and the Far East. The wingspan of the kaya is 6-7 cm. The upper side of the wings is colored brown-white and has an irregular sinuous pattern, the hind wings are red-orange, with round black or blue spots.
The proboscis of the kaya is underdeveloped, therefore, during its entire short life, it does not eat.
Dipper Hera
The bear, bearing the name of the wife of Zeus, the goddess Hera, is easily recognizable by three oblique light lines on the front wings and black spots on the red hind wings. The hera she-bear (Euplagia quadripunctaria) lives in Europe (except for northern regions) and in Central Asia. Occurs on forest edges and clearings, among shrubs in the zone of deciduous forests. By the time of flight, hera belongs to the late summer species - these butterflies fly in July and August. Unlike most other bears, the hera flies during the day. Caterpillars of this butterfly hibernate.
Human economic activity leads to the destruction of gera habitats, and today it has become extremely rare in many places.
This is one of the largest representatives of the family - its wingspan often exceeds 10 cm! The view surprises not only in size, but also in the way of life - the Trans-Caspian grim bears (Axiopoena maura) prefer to live among rocks and in caves! It is also unusual that the caterpillars of this species live very far from the caves in the forb steppes.
This amazing butterfly is found in India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the Caucasus and Turkmenistan.
Bear Mistress
The lady bear (Callimorpha dominula), unlike the previous species, cannot boast of large sizes (her wingspan is only 4.5-5 cm), but she is very beautiful. The forewings are dark shades with light spots, the hind wings are orange or bright red with dark spots.
The lady bear is widespread in Central and Southern Europe, the Caucasus and Transcaucasia. Prefers wet and open places - meadows, forb slopes, ravines, felling of deciduous forests.
Dipper black and yellow
This large bear (Epbestris melfntba), up to 7 cm in wingspan, lives in the rainforests of Colombia and Brazil, as well as in the equatorial regions of South America. The wings and abdomen of the butterfly are bright, but not variegated, and instead of the usual numerous specks, they are simply painted in two colors - black and golden yellow. After all, the Greek word melfntba means exactly "black-golden-yellow".
The red-spotted bear (Utetheisa pulchella) is a relatively small species, found in southern Europe, Africa, Central and South Asia. It got its name for the bright pattern on the wings. This rather rare species is mainly found in meadows.
Purple dipper
The purple bear (Rhyparia purpurata) is found in Europe and temperate Asian regions. Inhabits dry moorlands and sandy soils. Its wingspan is 3-4.5 cm. The front wings are yellow, with separate brownish spots, the back ones are orange-red.
Dipper is fast
The swift dipper (Spilarctia luteum) is widespread from North Africa, through Europe to East Asia. Prefers raw mixed and pine forests. White wings with small black dots in a span of 4-5 cm.
These bears fly in June and July during the daytime.In contact with
Bear family
I love this beauty, but try to find her during the day - she hides, but flies at night. I often see caterpillars, it's hard not to notice them - in the fall they crawl across the road to winter, and in the spring, already very grown, they hang on willows, aspens, sit in the grass - they are polyphages, that is, they eat different types of plants.
At the end of May, I took the largest caterpillar from a willow tree and brought it home. I put the willow twigs in a jar of water, covered the water with cotton so that the caterpillar would not drown. She put all this in a three-liter jar and covered it with a handkerchief with an elastic band. I wiped the jar from condensation so that there was no mold.
For two weeks the caterpillar gnawed the leaves, I regularly brought fresh ones to her. Then she weaved a cocoon between the leaves, reinforcing it with spiky hairs from her body. And then a couple of weeks later the butterfly was born. I photographed it and took it to the forest.
During the day, these butterflies sleep. But if frightened, they show the lower bright wings and shoot poisonous liquid from the abdomen. Kayis fly from July to August, and then young caterpillars appear, which hibernate.
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In May, I found two such caterpillars near a dacha in the Naro-Fominsk region. I regret that I did not take one for education - now they fly somewhere, but I cannot find them. These are secretive moths and are quite rare in our country. It seems to me that there should be more of them to the south.
The small caterpillar hibernates, then feeds and grows in the spring. The butterfly flies in June-July. The caterpillar is polyphagous - I saw one on meadow geraniums, the other on cereals.
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I often see these small (5 mm) bugs on flowers - they feed on pollen. The larvae are predators. In some species of youngsters, they hunt aphids, in others, they live in rotten wood and eat bark beetle larvae. "Malakus" in Latin is soft, gentle. These beetles do not have such hard covers as others.
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Although a rider hatched from the pupa of the lady's bear, I still met the butterfly at the end of June - it was sitting in the grass in the place where I took the caterpillar. Only her right wing is slightly deformed - apparently, such was born. Nobody will eat it, tk. many bears are poisonous.
Later, I met two more female bears of this species - on chamomile and yarrow.
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The lady's caterpillar feeds on buttercups, nettles, poplar, mountain ash.
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Phymatopus hecta with Psyche sp.
Thinworm heather, family Thinworms
Last year I did not see them anywhere, and now I constantly meet, and only males. Females are lighter in color.
Flies in June-July. The caterpillar lives on heather, bracken and highlander.
Nearby you can see the cap of a bagworm butterfly - the caterpillars construct caps from bark and blades of grass and drag them on themselves. Males of butterflies are usually gray, fluffy, and females are wingless.
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Ringed stalk, female (Nephrotoma crocata)
Males are smaller, slender and somewhat jerky - they jump on flowers back and forth. One even somehow got entangled with his legs in the inflorescence, and I pulled him out of there. The gizmo at the end of the female's body is the ovipositor.
Centipedes lay their eggs in damp ground and in silt near the shores of water bodies. They do not bite. The ringed longleg feeds on nectar.
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Pretty Girl (Calopteryx virgo)
Last year I photo-hunted these dragonflies for a long time and found only males. And this year females also appeared - they sat next to the males at the edge of the forest. Sometimes they took off, caught midges, sat on leaves and chewed food. One male was so calm that he even sat on my arm!
The larvae of beauties develop for 2-3 years in shallow water bodies.
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Meadow mite (Dermacentor reticulatus), Ixodid tick family
This is the only animal that I hate. It does not have charming eyes, a fluffy mustache, and it does not even itch - it silently does its dirty work!
In our country, ticks carry borreliosis (Lyme disease). If you remove the tick immediately, you will not get sick, if later, you need to drink 200 mg of Doxycycline within 72 hours after the bite to prevent borreliosis. And do not wait a day for the doctor to pull the tick out - pull it out yourself with a needle and that's the end of it (you need to pull out the proboscis especially for a long time).
The photo shows a characteristic hunting posture - with its legs spread out, the tick sniffs out its prey. If someone suddenly needs it, here I wrote in more detail about ticks -
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Corydalis linden (humpback, capuchin - Ptilodon capucina), family Corydalis
This species has a cool caterpillar, but somehow I can't find it. I met a butterfly for the first time - she was sitting in the grass on the slope above the stream, and I had to balance on one leg so as not to fall into this stream. The butterfly is nocturnal, so it sleeps during the day, and you can safely photograph it. We have two generations of Capuchins - at the beginning of summer and at the end of summer. The pupa hibernates.
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Megarissa pearl (Megarhyssa perlata), family Riders true, ichneumonids (Ichneumonidae)
Ichneumon in Greek is a bloodhound.
Megarissa pearl is listed in the Red Data Books of many regions. It is rare, there are not many photos of her on the Internet.
Once I read in the magazine "In the world of animals" a photographic story of a macrophotographer about the pearl megarissa. I was amazed by its size and variegated color - the rest of our riders are monochromatic, black or red. A lot of time has passed since then, and now I finally found megarissa! Yes, not one, but three at once.
In early July I was walking out of the forest in the evening, it was almost eight. I saw a bunch of fallen birches, looked closely, and there one megarissa flies and buzzes, another sits and cleans its tail, and the third drills a tree with an ovipositor.
Riders smell the larvae of bark beetles and other insects right through the bark. They drill the bark with the ovipositor and lay the egg exactly in the larva. The wasp larva develops inside the host and eventually destroys it.
Some small species of riders are massively bred in scientific institutes to treat fields from pests.
The riders are not at all interested in a person and do not try to prick him - unless they are grabbed and squeezed with a hand.
Megarissa specializes in horntail - these are hymenoptera, like sawflies, are also vegetarians, the larvae live in diseased wood. Megarissa lays an egg exactly next to the horntail larva under the bark. The hatched megarissa larva rides on the horntail until it eats it. When a rider lays an egg, he puts a scent mark so that the other rider does not touch this victim - after all, it is already occupied there.
The body length of the megarissa without the ovipositor is about 4.5 cm, and the ovipositor is longer than the body! In flight and by the sound of its wings, it resembles some kind of skinny dragonfly, followed by a long thread.
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Spotted dipper (Spilosoma lubricipeda), Dipper family
If you touch this fluffy butterfly, it falls and pretends to be dead. Usually hides during the day, flies at night. In case of danger, it shows enemies a yellow belly, warning of poisonousness. Caterpillars are fluffy, dark with a yellowish stripe, found on nettles, willows, geraniums and some other plants. Butterflies fly from May to July.
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Who would have thought that the record-wing looks so funny in infancy!
And an adult like this -
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Adult grasshoppers fly well, sometimes they even fly to our third floor.
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Bog moth (Epiphragma ocellare), family Bog moth (Limoniidae)
The pattern on the wings impressed me - that's how a mosquito!
Outwardly and in lifestyle, marshes are similar to long-legged mosquitoes. But they are usually smaller and have different wing venation. The larvae live in water bodies or in humid places, feed on dead organic matter, some are predators. Adults do not bite, they hide in damp places.
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Enoplognatha oval (Enoplognatha ovata), theridid family, tenetnik (Theridiidae)
These spiders are usually pale green-yellow, but sometimes you come across such elegant ones. The size of the female is 6 mm. At the same time, she easily catches insects twice her size.
They live in raspberry bushes or in the grass, where they build small nets in the form of hammocks. For a person, they are completely harmless, although there is a black widow in the same family.
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At the cinema:
The Amazing Spider-Man - I was skeptical at first about restarting this project, but in the end I liked this movie more than the old Spider-Man. A real adventure drama where you sympathize with the main villain, and a couple of the main actors look nicer than Toby and Dunst. I just didn't like the soundtrack - I don't even remember what kind of music it was.
“Brave at heart” is a beautiful, good, kind cartoon about the search for the golden mean in the relationship between generations. However, the adventure is not enough, and the soundtrack is weak.
"Super Mike" - The film is claimed to be an incendiary comedy, but in fact it is a boring melodrama. However, the dance numbers are good, and Matthew McConaughey is surprisingly beautiful as the owner of a strip club.
"Rock for Ages" - I am a fan of musicals and rock, so I love it! Here I wrote a review, there you can also listen to how he sings ... Tom Cruise -
http://borubo.ru/index.php/2012/06/rok-na-veka-adama-shenkmana/#more-1920
I read that Keti filed for divorce from Tom - they say, he is a despot and a tyrant, did not allow her to appear in new films and wanted to send her daughter Suri to a Scientology school. I wonder if he was tying her to a chair?
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In the Internet:
“Game of Thrones” - I've heard a lot about this series (so far 2 seasons of 10 episodes have been filmed), its rating on Kinopoisk is very high. The film turned out to be really fascinating and extremely tough and frank - I do not recommend it to children under 16. This is something like the story of the war of the White and Scarlet Roses in a light fantasy treatment. Politics, intrigue, love, war. Actually from fantasy here only Shadow, Others and Dragons (occasionally). It is a pity for wolves and ravens - people treat them unfairly.
Sean Bean and his Eddard Strack are beautiful. It's a shame that almost all of Sean Bean's films are killed. Recently, Shonchik looks somewhat tired and shabby, they say he drinks too much. Eh, such a sexy man used to be. I would take an example from Tom Cruise - he looks 10 years younger, goes in for sports.
My favorite Game of Thrones characters are Daenerys (blonde), Lord Stark and his daughter Arya.
"Lollipop" - at one time this film was actively discussed, but I just watched it. The film is a provocation, ambiguous, there are only two actors on the screen. But exciting and interesting. True, the ending is stupid, and in general it is absurd - a terminator girl. And the plot is this - a teenage girl decides to make fun of her uncle-pedophile ... There are older films on the theme of the victim and the executioner, for example, "The Virgin and Death" by Polanski.
"Girl and Fox" - (France, 2007) - I recommend to all nature lovers. Nowadays this is rarely filmed, and I'm afraid children are reluctant to watch such things. It's a pity, this is a worthwhile film, deep, dramatic. A bright, beautiful, kind movie that immersed me in pleasant memories - as a child, I also ran through the woods. Only in the caves did not stray. It's great that the girl in the film understood an important thing - if you love, don't strive to possess.
As for foxes, fox cubs are easy to tame, some even keep them at home. But then you cannot return them to the forest - they will die. Adult foxes are difficult to tame, but some come to the dachas and take the chicken straight from their hands.
It is interesting that in the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics you can buy truly domestic foxes - http://myfoxcub.ru/gallery.html
I saw a story about them. These foxes have been selected for years on the principle of "the kindest and most tame". As a result, we got a clean line of absolutely domestic foxes - they never bite, they can be picked up, they are not dangerous for children, they get along with dogs and cats.
By the way, the domestic fox is strongly attached to the owner, and if he wants to return it to the farm, it will be stressful.
An Indonesian posted a video on his Facebook of a strange-looking creature that looks like a hybrid of a moth and a spider with furry legs. Commentators write that it would be better to burn down their house than to be next to this creature. True, it turned out that this is not a monster from another planet, but the most common insect before mating.
A resident of Indonesia, who calls himself Gandhic on Facebook, tickled the nerves of his subscribers by sharing on Facebook a photo of a strange creature that looks like a butterfly from another planet.
Seeing the picture, people did not understand why this creature is still not on fire. Although, as the experience of a woman from Kansas shows, it really is.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS AND WHY IS IT STILL NOT BURNING?"
"OH GOD, NO, I WILL BURN THE WHOLE COUNTRY WHEN I SEE THIS CREATION."
People did not understand what kind of creature was in front of them, but guessed that it was a hybrid of a spider and a moth. Or a moth with caterpillars. In any case, most people did not want to face him at all.
"I'd rather be sucked into hell than face this."
"I will need to be revived if I step on it."
For those with very strong nerves, a post was also attached to the post, where a mysterious creature moves its paws.
The video captured a bear butterfly (in Latin the name sounds like Creatonotos gangis). According to the Daily Mail, such hairy legs in these insects can not always be seen, but only during the mating period.
With the help of these tubes - coremata filled with blood or air - male moths secrete pheromones. Hair, of which there are about 3 thousand on each tube, helps to diffuse these odors.
The size of the coremata depends on how much the male ate the leaves of the poisonous plants when he was a caterpillar.
But even when Facebook users found out what kind of creature in front of them, their sympathy for him did not increase.
"It's worse than a spider."
"This is terrible!!! Why does this exist? !!! I would leave wherever it is and never come back. "
Such butterflies are found in Asia and Australia, and now people doubt whether it is worth going to this country. After all, there you can also stumble upon fluffy spiders, which at first glance.
"Look dear, that's why we don't have to go to Australia."
But not only insects dream of Internet users in nightmares, sea creatures may well give odds to spiders and butterflies-bears. This fisherman from Murmansk regularly posts photos, and subscribers cannot stop watching them.
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