32.Insects in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt by Entomologist in Ukraine (ENG)

VIDEO LINK: http://youtu.be/a-o6hyLqnmU  Entomologist Dr Viktor Fursov is talking about some common insects which are presented in the famous recreational and touristic area of Egypt: Sharm-el-Sheikh, the city for vacation of tourists all around the world.

Many of tourists are Russian and Ukrainian, German and British.

Did you see any insects in Sharm-el-Sheikh? Really?

Where?

Most of insects are killed by desinsectors who are trying to make white insecticidal smoke  and spaying all around the palms and trees near the hotels daily.

This smoke is disgasting! But... but... but... who survive?



But many insects are still crawing, jumping and flying around.

We noted these insects:

1) Dragonflies (Odonata) - flying around the pools and trees

2) Earwigs (Dermaptera) - crawing on the ground at the evening time

3) Flies - Muscidae,

4) Mosquitos - Culicidae (Diptera)

5) Praying mantids - cocoons of schubs - Mantoidea

6) Ants (Formicoidea) - crawling on trees and on the ground

7) Butterflies - Pieridae (Lepidoptera) - they are flying around

8) Butterflies - Tortricidae - leaf-rolling moths - caterpillars are hidden inside leaves of trees (Acacia)

9) parasitic ichneumonoid  wasps - Apanteles sp. - Braconidae (Ichneumonoidea, Hymenoptera) - white cocoons are on Acacia leaves

10) parasitic chalcid wasps - Pteromalidae (Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera) - parasitoids of Braconidae

11) Flower wasps - Tiphiidae - flying around the grass and searching for the prey, Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) larvae. Adults are also flying around the flowers.

12) Digger wasps - Specidae - flying around the grass and searching for the prey

13) Solitary bees - Apoidea (Hymenoptera) - on flowers

14) Aphids - Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) - on flowers of ornamental trees and schrubs, including Hibiscus and others (very common!)

15) Bathroom Fly, Clogmia sp. (Diptera,  Psychodidae) - in the bath (!)

16) beetles - weevils - Curculionidae - crawiling on the ground

17) Oriental cockroach - Blatta orientalis (Blattodea) - crawing on the ground at the dark time

18) Grasshoppers - Acrididae (Orthoptera) - sitting and jumping on schubs (rare)

19) Danaus chrysippus, or the Plain Tiger or African Monarch butterfly - flying  around the flowers - (Lepidoptera, Nympahlidae, Danainae)



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