Invertebrates

The smaller the pond, the faster he can warm up. The warmer the water becomes, the richer it becomes life. Here, breed, multiply and die countless ciliates and rotifers, invisible or barely visible to the naked eye. In late April, when warm up water, it is already floating jerky jumps transparent crustaceans - Cyclops and Daphnia, for which these pools - an boundless sea. Here you can see several species of leeches, and among them a large black, so-called lozhnokonskuyu leech. Scoop up water from puddles. You probably noticed it nimble mosquito larvae. Where did they come? Still nowhere to be seen no adult mosquitoes and mosquito larvae filled puddles, roadside ditches and thawed (or later) of water ponds. These larvae hatched from eggs that have postponed the female mosquitoes in the summer, Kusaka (aedes) on the edges of ephemeral ponds on the banks of ponds and slopes of pits and ditches. These eggs were very long. They dry out in summer and warm; winter. And only now, when spring flows are washed into the water, have started to develop tiny larvae. In the garden, field, forest flying and crawling flies, beetles, butterflies and other insects. From early spring butterflies one of the first moth flies, "vesenpitsa birch. By brown color, by the method of folding wings, it's easy to take for any bat. It flies in the bright sun, and during the deployment of young leaves her to be found on birch trunks in young groves. Flying, it rises high above the treetops.