Experts Moparty during the daily monitoring of the natural-historical Park “Kuzminki-Lublin” photographed beetles several species, including listed in the Red book of Moscow. They differ in appearance, lead different lifestyles, but each of them good for the environment.
This little beetle, the color of which depends on gender and varies from reddish to red to brown, feeds on pollen and nectar. Found leptura red throughout the summer, usually they can be seen on the flowers. The larvae develop in pine trees and trees of some other species, they destroy dead wood of trunks and stumps, without causing harm to the tree.
This large black beetle is listed in the Red book of Moscow (the third category of rarity). Its larvae feed on dead wood, helping to recycle on humus and roots in the soil of the base of the trunks of withered or dead trees. Thus, they fertilize the ground and disposing of large amounts of dead wood contribute to the humification of the soil.
These insects are black with orange-red stripes on the wings of those who are called attendants of the forest. And adult beetles and larvae feed on carrion that promotes the decomposition of dead small animals. Thus a Deathwatch beetle prevents the spread of infections.
Beautiful insects copper-green color with brilliant reflections listed in the Red book of Moscow (the second category of rarity). In Park “Kuzminki-Lublin” they can be seen rarely. According to experts Mospeada, this kind of bronzovok met here in the late 80-ies, but since the Park is not included in the list of its habitat. This year the beetle was attracted by the special feeder with ripe fruit set in June for butterflies. Bronzovoi marble — real foodies, they eat young shoots of plants, stamens and pistils of flowers fruit trees and shrubs, the juice of the leaves and stems, flower nectar. Their larvae is less whimsical: they are interested in stumps and hollows, and are satisfied with the rotting wood, thereby contributing to the decomposition of residues of dead trees.
Only in the capital’s Red book listed about 30 species of beetles, and in the list of animals in need of constant control and monitoring, — more than 40.
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