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No.36 JUNE 12, 2018
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Take care of bees!
There are 16 entomological
sanctuaries in the Rivne region
By Liudmyla STUPCHUK, Rivne
The prominent physicist Albert
Einstein is said to have
predicted: if bees ever die off,
humans will go extinct four
years later or so. Maybe he
really said that, but it is likelier that
these words were misattributed to
him; still, humanity ought to give
them a thought. It is because the list
of plants that do not yield fruit
without insect pollinators is quite
long. Moreover, 80 percent of the
pollination work is carried out
precisely by bees, because butterflies,
flies or wasps, of course, cannot work
the huge areas that are needed by
humans. Thus, scientists, beekeepers,
and farmers are increasingly
frequently sounding the alarm and
calling for bees to be protected,
considering that the main cause of
their extinction is poisoning with
pesticides and pathogenic microorganisms.
Many plants are pollinated by
wild bees as well, which still manage
to survive under natural conditions,
making nests in the hollows of trees,
at the entrances to caves or even under
rocky protrusions. They almost
never get sick and can survive a severe
winter with the ambient temperature
falling to 50 degrees Celsius
below zero. But wild bees are
special not only in their higher working
capacity and endurance, but also
in low levels of anger, as they rarely
bite and chase after those who disturb
them, so that such scenes can be
seen in cartoons alone. Do you remember
how Winnie the Pooh tried
to escape from such bees? But, just
as “domestic” bees (and maybe more
so), they also face extinction under
the current conditions. Therefore,
some species of wild bees are protected
in Ukraine and elsewhere. The
Red List of Ukraine includes eight
species of bumblebees and several
species of wild bees (mason bee,
Dasypoda).
“The fact is that for healthy existence
of wild bees and preservation
of their ability to harvest wild honey,
special conditions are needed
which are very difficult to preserve
Photo by Mykola TYMCHENKO, The Day
in the modern world. In order to save
the wild bee gene pool and prevent it
from hybridization with domestic
bees, the protected habitat (pristine
forests with hollow trees and sufficient
tree cover to provide a rich forage
base) should be enormous. After
all, male bees sometimes overcome
distances up to 17 kilometers in
search of a partner,” biologist Anatolii
Vlaskin told us. “It is primarily
‘human factor’ that facilitates the
disappearance of wild bees. Because
of the excessive use of pesticides,
high share of arable land, and the
burning of grass, they irreversibly
reduce their range and perish.”
To preserve the populations of
disappearing insects, including wild
bees, people create entomological
sanctuaries. In particular, there are
16 such sanctuaries in the Rivne region.
The entomological fauna of
these territories is represented by
many species, among them the regionally
rare species of insects included
in the Red List of Ukraine.
For example, such species include
stag beetle, musk beetle, and Old
World swallowtail in Riasnyky and
Miatnyky sanctuaries.
Hrushvytsia and Kolodenka
sanctuaries host populations of gray
forest grasshopper and gray click
beetle, green grasshopper, violet
ground beetle, and red campion. Not
all adults are likely to know how
these insects look, and children have
seen them mostly in books alone.
This is despite their parents probably
having done a lot during their
own childhood to reduce the population
of deer beetles, grasshoppers,
and even swallowtail butterflies – do
you remember how many of them
you caught and put into little boxes
to admire and show to friends?
However, most entomological
sanctuaries in the Rivne region were
created specifically to preserve the
breeding places of wild bees and
bumblebees. They are protected in
Syniv, Moshchanytsia, Stupno, Buderazh,
Korshiv, Steblivka, and Ozeriany
sanctuaries. Logging, grazing,
and mowing are restricted in these
“zoos” for insects, and the use of any
chemicals is prohibited as well.
By Larysa MYRHORODSKA, Ternopil
The “Ukrainian Soul” exhibition
of young creative artist Olesia
Hudyma’s paintings, which
opened at the Ternopil Regional
Art Museum on June 1, can be
termed a positive explosion. Colorful,
fascinating paintings from the series
“Flowers,” “Ukrainian Madonna,”
“Angels of Peace for Ukraine”
‘sounded’ especially atmospheric
when accompanied by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart’s music. As Hudyma
told The Day, she painted a lot of
works while listening to his tunes.
Hence, there is also a painting named
Flowers for Mozart among more than
40 works on display.
Hudyma is a journalist by profession.
She started painting in 2007
and has created a thousand paintings
since then. The artist has to paint
even at night sometimes, because her
four children need attention too. She
says that without her husband, she
would have never been able to cope
with the domestic chores. Photographer
Liubomyr Kit is now her art
manager as well. Hudyma started
with the “Sleepwalker” series, and
continued with “Steps” as well as already
mentioned “Angels of Peace for
Ukraine,” “Ukrainian Madonna,” and
“Flowers.” Her works are in private
collections almost all over the world,
except for Australia and Argentina.
They were exhibited in Kyiv’s Mystetsky
Arsenal this May. Soon, the
talented Ternopil artist’s series
“Ukrainian Madonna” will appear on
stamps of Ukrposhta, while the
painting The Tree of Life will be made
into a greeting postcard. Well-known
British company Wraptious has already
reproduced Hudyma’s “Flowers”
on cushions made out of vegan
suede. Last winter, the artist’s works
appeared on the covers of the Canon
periodical, published in the American
city of Portland, and in the Kyiv
magazine Slovo Zhinky. Hudyma’s
A romantic mode of transport has
appeared in the city on the Buh River
By Olesia SHUTKEVYCH, Vinnytsia
Recently, pub owner Vitalii
Humeniuk, who leases a barge
on the riverfront, started
offering this attraction to his
patrons. A romantic boat was
designed by his grandpa to confess his
love to his future wife. Many years
later, Humeniuk decided to give the
A positive explosion
Ternopil artist Olesia Hudyma’s paintings
will appear on stamps of Ukrposhta
paintings reflect an eclectic mix of
artistic styles, including impressionism,
expressionism, abstractionism,
symbolism, naive art, mathematism,
magical realism, and postmodernism.
The artist emphasizes: her paintings
are intuitive, heart-created spontaneously,
not based on traditional
rules of the art. “However, in order
to paint like this, one needs to develop
technically for many years beforehand,”
Hudyma believes. Her personal
techniques include impatto and
sfumato, done using masticks, brushes,
and combs. The painter admits
that she is impressed by the art of
positivism. “Now it is the purity of
the colors in the picture that I need,
and it is very difficult to achieve,”
the artist told us.
Hudyma’s works will be exhibited
at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum
until June 18. This is the third solo
exhibition of the young artist in her
hometown.
“Is Vinnytsia really any worse than Venice?”
gondola a second life, restored it,
modernized, and launched into water.
“My grandpa and grandma had an
incredible love story that deserves a
novel-length treatment. The grandpa
built this gondola for her, but christened
it Juliet, probably in honor of the
character of the famous Shakespearean
play,” the pub owner told us. “I worked
abroad for a long time. When asked
Photo courtesy of the author
Photo by Mykhailo URBANSKYI
where I came from, I replied: ‘From Vinnytsia.’
And everybody thought that I
was from Venice. After all, is Vinnytsia
really any worse than Venice? When
I opened my restaurant, I remembered
the gondola and my Vinnytsia Venice.
After a long reconstruction and testing,
I launched the first tourist season and
became the first gondolier in the city.
Now I am carrying couples of lovers who
admire the sunset or sunrise. People are
pleased, while my establishment gets
tourists entertained.”
Juliet differs from the original
gondolas in that it is a bit narrower and
longer. There is an iron crest on the
boat’s bow which acts as a counterbalance
to the gondolier. The boat has a
comfortable seat and a table. Since nobody
teaches the gondola sculling art in
Ukraine, Humeniuk had to master this
skill on his own: he watched video tutorials,
read books and perused dozens
of films. He admits that gondola is
harder to steer than an ordinary boat.
Moreover, in addition to the skill, one
needs to have permission for boat rowing
on the Southern Buh River.
A gondola ride along the Southern
Buh River costs 250 hryvnias. In this
way, Humeniuk tries to raise funds for
his dream: to open a school of Ukrainian
gondoliers, because the number of
clients willing to ride in the gondola increases
all the time, so he is becoming
unable to serve them all.
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