- June- (lat. Junius), named after the goddess Juno, the wife of Jupiter, the goddess of fertility, the mistress of rain and the guardian of marriage. According to another version, the name of the month goes back to the word "junior", which means "young", "younger".
June is the month of the radiant sun, the longest days and white nights, the brightest month of the year - milky. And June is also a songful and fertile month, grain-growing and hoarding, grain-growing, it accumulates crops for the whole year, enriches our house. June and the blush of the year, and the first grass, and the ant. The time of tall grasses and hayfields, bright flowers was also called multi-colored, retail, strawberry.
If the nights are warm in June - to an abundance of fruits.
What is June - such is the hay.
Strong dews - to fertility, and frequent fogs promise a harvest of mushrooms.
- June(blush). multicolored. Khleborost. Khleborod. Hoarder. Isok. Cheven. Luny. Blush of the year. Kresnik.
In the old days, the native Russian names were Izok and Cherven. Isocom was the name given to the grasshopper, an insect that is abundant in June. Cheven from the word worm, worm. At this time, a lot of worms appear. Often June is called Kresnik from the word kres - fire, a fire that is lit on the night of Ivan Kupala.
In June, the shortest, "sparrow" nights. Longitude of the day 17 h 33 min. This is the longest daylight hours of the year. From June 1st to the 25th - the brightest nights. From June 22, the day begins to decrease. The average air temperature is about +16 C.
Frosts are possible from 1 to 12 June. Almost every year at this time there is a significant cooling.
Sub-seasons of June are distinguished:
June 1-10 - Predlet.
June 11-30 - Beginning of summer.
The people consider the beginning of June the 6th day - the beginning of the flowering of the wild rose.
The phenological calendar considers June from the 13th - the time of flowering viburnum.
Astronomical June begins on June 21 or 22 (in a leap year) - the day of the solstice. From June 1 to June 21, according to the astronomical calendar, the Sun is in the sign of Taurus. And then it moves into the constellation Gemini.
The lilacs are blooming, which means summer has begun.
From June 21, the first month of summer begins in the forest - “Nest Month” - the time for the hatching of chicks. While the quail is sitting in the nest, her friend is fighting in the competition. Sparrows, quails, wood pigeons bring out chicks for the second time. It is time for molting in birds of prey and birds, in waterfowl and songbirds.
Gardeners and gardeners have their own worries:
1st decade of June - the last date for sowing seeds of cucumbers, beans, beans, zucchini, corn, pumpkins into the soil. "June-priest grows everything that is put in mother earth." Transplanting.
2nd decade - watering fruit-bearing trees. During the growth period, in the first half of June, abundant watering of currants. “June has come in different colors - there is no free day.”
June's talismans are pearls and a rose. Gemini.
According to astrological calendars, the correspondence of the signs of the Zodiac and the horoscope of the Druids to the birthdays of people: June 1-21 - Gemini, June 22-30 - Cancer; June 1-3 - ash, June 4-13 - Hornbeam, June 14-23 - Fig, June 24 - Birch, June 25-30 - Apple tree.
June was once the fourth month of the year; after New Year began to be celebrated in September - the tenth; and from 1700 to this day it is the sixth in a row.
In Russia, the first summer month is called "rozantsvet", the Poles call it - "chervets", the Czechs and Slovaks - "worm", the Croats - "Ivan-chak" and "kisen".
The month is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter. It was considered the month of summer heat, the solstice.
By June, the diligent peasant was finishing the main spring field work: sowing and planting, plowing the early fallow. In late May and early June, before the mass flowering of meadow grasses, a short time rest - between pairs. And in the south, haymaking was already unfolding. Again worries surrounded the peasant. That's what the saying is about: "June has come rose-color, there is no end to work."
June is the first month of the long-awaited summer. June brings crops for the whole year, but in itself it is a hungry month - there is still little ripe. This month is called so for flowers, colors and bright dawns. The people call it a grain grower.
June is a hoarder, the harvest is saving up for the whole year. However, the peasant table was still meager: if the days of fasting did not fall out, the family ate mainly dairy products, testicles and the first greens from the garden. And the bread was already running out. Therefore, pies, noodles and porridge were considered rare. The peasants sadly said: “June is in the bins of the dun, look: is there a living somewhere; forgotten in the corners"; "Collect the specks from the floor - make a commemoration of bread."
June is the month of young, green grass and the first harvests: in late May - early June, the first vegetables and greens of the new season appear on the markets, and the housewives prepare soup from young nettles.
June needs and worries forced the peasant to take a closer look at the weather changes, and since ancient times, the villagers have noticed the connection between winter weather and summer weather. This was indicated by the experience of many years of observations. Winter weather changes were especially noticeable in the June days. The weather coincided after 177 days - after six lunar months. If frost fell in winter, then after a lunar half a year dew fell. If in December it was heavy and sleet snow, in June it was manifested by a thunderstorm and rain. Winter snow pellets brought cold weather in June. The December blizzard turned into a bad weather in June. A warm December foreshadowed the June heat. These signs usually came true completely, and the peasant determined his economic concerns in advance, calculated his leisure time.
And many signs and customs are associated with this month among the people.
One day you don't recognize summer.
The cuckoo brings news of summer, and the swallow brings warm days.
The swallow begins spring, and the nightingale ends summer.
In June, a day is about a year.
In June, food is scarce and life is fun: flowers bloom, nightingales sing.
In June, the dawn converges with the dawn.
In June, each bush will let you spend the night.
In June, the first berry is put in the mouth, and the second is carried home.
In June, a holiday in the forest: pine and spruce blossom.
June is full of thunderstorms.
June is the month of white nights, flowering herbs, singing birds.
June is the brightest month of the year.
Spends June at work, discourages dancing from hunting.
June has come - spit on fishing.
June has come - colorful - there is no end to work.

June is the end of the flight, the beginning of summer. May makes bread, and June makes hay. June - empty bins. Spends June at work, discourages songs from hunting. Sultry June - spit on fishing. If the nights are warm in June, then we can probably expect an abundance of fruits. During sunrise, there is stuffiness - to bad weather.
Fog spreads over the water in the morning - it will be sunny weather. Strong dews - to fertility, and frequent fogs promise a harvest of mushrooms. The water is as clear as ever - by the rain. In the morning the grass smells stronger than usual - to the rain. It smells good of honeysuckle - to the rain.
In the morning, the woodlice blossomed and remained open all day - for good weather. The herd burst into tears in the evening - it will be rainy. If the bees buzz in swarms on the blossoming mountain ash, tomorrow will be a clear day. Sparrows are cheerful, mobile, pugnacious - for good weather. If in June there are a lot of ants around the anthill - good weather.

I jun. Koiets flight - the beginning of summer.

You lie down in the summer - in the winter you will run with a bag.
Stormy summer - winter with blizzards.
Summer is rainy - winter is snowy and frosty.
Summers are dry and hot; winters are cold and snowy.
A fruitful summer heralds a cold winter.
Khleborod - for a harsh winter.
What is the summer - such is the hay.

Damp summer and warm autumn - to a long winter.
Summer day feeds the year.
Do not pray for a long summer, pray
warm.
If there is no dew at night in summer, it will rain during the day.
If, in clear weather in summer, distant objects are not clear, as if in a fog, it will rain.
When visible objects from afar seem unusually large, you can wait north wind and rain (Voronezh region).
If the air above the forest turns blue, it will be warm.
If in the morning the rooster sang before nine o'clock in the evening - to the rain.
The crane (at the well) creaks - to a change in the weather.
Windmills (windmills) creak - there will be a storm.
If the voice rings, it will be clear.
If the ringing of the bell is clearly heard, it will be clear, deafly heard - rain.
Rooks graze on the grass in summer - soon it will rain.
The first mist of summer is a true mushroom omen.
Clear Milky Way in the summer - to the bucket.
If the spiders are completely invisible in the summer, it will inevitably rain.
If you see a lot of spiders - you have to wait for good weather.
Crows often cry - for rain or violent weather.
When ants inflict large ant heaps in summer, expect an early and cold winter.
If field mice drag a lot of bread into their holes in summer, then we can expect a cold and long winter.

June is the end of the flight, the beginning of summer.

May is joy, and June is happiness.

May makes bread, and June makes hay. June - ay, the bins in the barns are empty.

June,

In the bins of the day!

Is there a life

Forgotten in the corners?

June passed through the meadows with a scythe, and July ran through the loaves with a sickle.

Spends June at work, discourages songs from hunting.

In June, there is no free day!

Sultry June - spit on fishing.

If the nights are warm in June, then we can probably expect an abundance of fruits.
In June, each bush will let you spend the night.

During sunrise, there is stuffiness - to bad weather.

Fog spreads over the water in the morning - it will be sunny weather.

In June, the first berry is put in the mouth, and the second is carried home.

The water is clearer than ever - by the rain.

In the morning, the grass smells stronger than usual - to the rain.

It smells good of honeysuckle - to the rain.

In the morning, the woodlice blossomed and remained open all day - for good weather.

The herd burst into tears in the evening - it will be rainy.

If a swarm of bees lose weight on a flowering mountain ash, tomorrow will be a clear day.
Clover brings the leaves together - to bad weather.

Sparrows are cheerful, mobile, pugnacious - for good weather.

If there are a lot of ants around the anthill - good weather.

In June, food is scarce and life is fun: flowers bloom, nightingales sing.

IN Ancient Rus' it was called "izok" (grasshopper) and "worm" - in this month our ancestors collected worms to get crimson paint.
Multicolour, Luny. Blush of the year. Kresnik. June - (lat. Junius), named after the goddess Juno, the wife of Jupiter, the goddess of fertility, the mistress of rain and the protector of marriage. According to another version, the name of the month goes back to the word "junior", which means "young", "younger".
June is the month of the radiant sun, the longest days and white nights, the brightest month of the year is milky. And also June is a songful and fertile month, grain-growing and hoarding, grain-growing, it accumulates crops for the whole year, enriches our house. June and the blush of the year, and the first grass, and the ant. The time of tall grasses and hayfields, bright flowers was also called multi-colored, retail, strawberry.

Summer comes at that time. When the rye is stalked, horseflies and elm lionfish will fly, wild rose, raspberry, Tatar maple will bloom.
In the middle of the month, bath brooms are prepared.
At the end of June - the average period of flowering of St. John's wort, purple sow thistle, meadow cornflower.
June corresponds to a rose.

If the nights are warm in June - to an abundance of fruits.
What is June - such is the hay.
Strong dews - to fertility, and frequent fogs promise a harvest of mushrooms.

In strawberry June

Summer will rush like a green sea,

Meadows will be flooded with chamomile

And a seven-color yoke

Ringing in the bottomless sky.

And the sun will look in surprise

From an unfathomable height

To the June updated world

Unique beauty.

T. Melnikova

June opens summer. In Ancient Rus', June was the fourth, and then the tenth month of the year. And only in 1700 he took his usual place. June in Slavic "cherven" is a red month. In the ancient Russian calendar, it was called "svetozar", that is, illuminated by light: for long days and short nights. People say: “In June the sun is high, and from morning to evening it is far away”, “Rose-flower” is called him for the abundance of bright flowers in the meadows and glades. Our ancestors also called June "izok", which means a grasshopper, because it is in this month that they chirp day and night. “Strawberry” was nicknamed June for the fact that the berry ripens: “In June, the first berry is put in the mouth, the second is carried home.” The very same word "June" or "juniy" is not Russian. It came to us from Byzantium. This month is named after Ancient Rome in honor of the ancient Greek goddess of fertility, love, family happiness - Juno. In June, there is a lot of work in the fields: "June has come in different colors, there is no end to work." In June, winter rye is earing, gardens fade, mushrooms appear - boletus, boletus, spikelets (that's what ceps are called at that time). In the first summer month the solstice occurs when the sun wheel, having reached its greatest height, begins to descend - June 29, the day of the summer solstice, when the night is the shortest and the day is the longest.

June Proverbs

In June, a day is about a year.

June is a hoarder, the harvest is saving up for the whole year.

In June, the dawn converges with the dawn.

In June, each bush will let you spend the night.

Red summer bored no one.

June rains are better than a golden mountain.

June warmth is sweeter than a fur coat.

June is the time of long grasses and hayfields.

To weed the field - to chop your hands, but not to weed, and do not grind bread.

June Mysteries

1. The sun bakes, the linden blossoms, the rye ripens, when does this happen? (In summer.)

2. Without windows, without doors, the upper room is full of people. (Cucumber.)

3. Lies between the beds is green and sweet. (Cucumber.)

4. I grow out of the earth - I dress the whole world. (Linen.)

5. Little baby left in the damp earth, found a blue hat. (Linen.)

6. Black in autumn, white in winter, green in spring, yellow in summer. (Niva.)

7. All of gold cast, standing on a straw. (Ear.)

8. He is golden and mustachioed, there are a hundred guys in a hundred pockets. (Ear.)

I’ll go to the warm earth, I’ll ascend to the sun with a spikelet,

Then there will be a whole family in it like me. (A grain.)

10. Yegorka is standing in a red Yarmolka, whoever passes, gives every bow. (Mushroom.)

11. Tatyana flaunts in a forest clearing - a scarlet sundress, white specks. (Strawberry.)

12. The ball grew white. The wind blew - the balloon flew away. (Dandelion.)

13. Oh, bells, blue color,

With a tongue, but no ringing. (Bells.)

14. On a green cord - white bells. (Lily of the valley.)

15. You can't see yourself, but you can hear the song. (Mosquito.)

16. From a branch to a path, from grass to a blade of grass

A spring is jumping - a green back. (Grasshopper.)

signs of June

Many insects fly to the fire - to the rain.

If there are a lot of ants around the anthill - good weather.

FLOWERING HERBS

Like rye in the fields, so in the meadows all the cereals also bloomed, and when an insect shook the cereal, it was enveloped in pollen, like a golden cloud. All herbs are blooming, and even plantain - what kind of grass is plantain - and also all in white beads. Cancer necks, lungworts, all kinds of spikelets, buttons, cones on thin stems greet us. How many of them have passed while we have lived for so many years, and not to know - it seems, all the same necks, spikelets, old friends. Hello, hello again, darlings!

M. Prishvin

Summer is buzzing, stirring

Antennae and proboscis.

Touch, touch, touch

Try every flower.

Summer on the green road

With honey in a hurry to letok.

N. Ushakov

NOON

The sun is shining brightly

It's warm in the air

And wherever you look

Everything around is light.

They dazzle in the meadow

bright flowers,

covered in gold

Dark sheets.

The forest slumbers: not a sound.

The leaf does not rustle

Only a lark

Ringing in the air.

I. Surikov

ARIA OF INSECTS

Bees, butterflies, bugs -

We are like music icons.

Our role cannot be narrowed down

To the ability to buzz.

Our music is simple

Quiet, flying away

Flies away, calming down

He returns, fluttering.

I. Brodsky

GREENFINCH

The float trembled, swayed slightly, and suddenly sank rapidly to the bottom. I grabbed the rod - the hook arched, the line stretched like a string. “He caught a snag again,” I thought, but the next moment I felt a jerk, then the line weakened, hung over the water: the fish, escaping, went straight to the shore, into the reeds. I fished out a large perch. Red-feathered, striped, with a dark green tint on the sides. He seemed to me a rare handsome man, which is found only in deep, overgrown with reeds and covered with duckweed lakes. I carefully lowered him into the garden and closed the door. For the first few minutes he raged desperately in the cage, but then calmed down. The bite has begun. With each casting of the fishing line, as soon as the float was set, the striped robber immediately grabbed the worm and fell on the hook. With such a bite, it was possible to fish with only one rod, and I threw the second one near the reeds. But half an hour later a flock of perches, apparently, passed, or I caught them all, only the fish stopped biting. The float, like a small beacon, calmly loomed over the water. I lay down on the grassy bank and began to observe the cheerful awakening of the inhabitants of the lake. Near the water lily, like skaters on mirrored ice, swimming beetles slid and circled. The blue rocker, resembling a small helicopter, smoothly descended on the tip of the float and, after sitting for two or three minutes, rose into the air again. To the reeds - to the realm of large frogs - he swam already, proudly raising his head, decorated with a yellowish crown. The sun, rising higher and higher, laid a dazzling path on the lake water, which was impossible to look at without narrowing your eyes. It was a joyful, sparkling morning. The fish didn't bite. I remembered about the second fishing rod and, pulling the rod out of the grass, pulled it towards me. But the fishing line caught on something, and I had to get to my feet. The hook was not visible, the fishing line led into dense thickets of reeds.

“Did I throw this fishing rod so carelessly?”

I had to climb into the reeds to unhook the hook. Pulling the line a little, I pulled out ... a frog! Working with her paw, she tried to free herself from the hook, but she did not succeed. I helped my prisoner. She seemed beautiful to me: large, protruding eyes, dark lines loomed from head to hind legs, breast white, tender.

Go, stupid, and don't get caught again! ..

The bite started again. But perch were no longer caught. The float danced and ran a little to the side. She probably took a path - a cautious and hasty fish. It was necessary to seize the moment for hooking. Broke a few times. While changing the worms, I felt someone's eyes on me. Looked around - no one. But the feeling that I was still not alone here did not leave me. And suddenly I noticed a frog, the same one that caught my hook. She looked at me, as they say, with all her eyes, and apparently she was waiting for something. I guessed, and, having removed the worm from the hook, I put it right on the muzzle. After a moment's hesitation, she removed it with her paw on the grass, and then swallowed it instantly. That's the problem! It turns out that she has been picking up old worms that I have thrown off the hook for a long time. I began to share with her, and soon we became friends. When she had eaten enough, she grew bolder and climbed into the garden. It was amusing to watch how she, having heard the splash of fish in the cage, stuck her muzzle through the cracks and, clinging to the planks with her paws, climbed like a monkey around the cage. Then she got tired, and she sat down on the very door to bask in the sun. It was pecking well, and she often had to be disturbed in order to put the caught fish in the tank. She was not very willing to leave her familiar place. I nudged her with light snaps of my fingers, and sometimes even treated her rudely: there was no time to stand on ceremony. But she didn't leave. Imagine my surprise when the next day I saw her again! As soon as I had time to set the fishing rods, she crawled out of the reeds and stared at me with her bulging eyes.

Hello Zelenushka! I greeted her.

How is the bite today?..

For the sake of such a meeting, I had to treat her with a fresh worm. For several dawns in a row, we sat together on the shore of the lake, and surprisingly: I was lucky all the time. Each time I brought home a full fish tank.

But somehow he returned to his former place, arranged his rods, sat down more comfortably by the water, out of habit began to wait for her, looking at the reeds: my partner was about to appear. But time passed, but she still did not appear and, as if it were a sin, did not peck. I got up and parted the reeds. There was no greenery. And the place of fishing seemed to me at once somehow deserted and uncomfortable. Turning up the fishing rods, I noticed a narrow, shiny strip on the lake: I was already swimming. He proudly held his head above the water and fearlessly glided to the shore. He swam to the reeds and stopped when he saw me. I was waiting for him to swim closer to avenge Zelenushka. But, sensing danger, I already turned aside and began to hide behind the floating grass ... I did not come to this place again.

G. Paushkin

June omens

Frequent fogs promise a harvest of mushrooms.

Frogs purr - for the rain, shout loudly - for good weather, are silent - before the cold.

A green rainbow is for rain, yellow for good weather, red for heat and wind.

In the morning, the bees do not fly into the fields, but sit in the hives - wait for the rain.

If the nights are warm in June, then an abundance of fruit can be expected.

Sparrows are cheerful, mobile, pugnacious - for good weather.

Fish jump out of the water - before the rain.

In the morning the grass smells stronger than usual - to the rain.

The water is as clear as ever - by the rain.

Warmed up…

Spring has departed. In the yard, the month of June is the initiator of summer. The month of flowers, chicks and bright nights, the crown of spring.

The old Russian name for the month of June is "worm" - the red month. It is named so because since ancient times at this time they collected an insect - a worm - from the roots of a rake to obtain red paint. The month of June in Ancient Rus' was also called izok - that was the name of the grasshopper then. From the warm grasses, the chirping of grasshoppers is heard with might and main.

The Romans called the fourth month of the year "junius" - after the wife of Jupiter - Juno, the patroness of women.

The average monthly temperature in Russia in June is 16-18 degrees, the highest temperature in some years, usually in the third decade, reaches 36-38 degrees Celsius (1957 and 1975). Sometimes the invasion of cold air from the Arctic in the first ten days of June is accompanied by a drop in temperature at night to 2-4 degrees of frost, which was observed in 1950, 1954, 1958, 1967, 1969, 1971.

Monthly precipitation in the month of June is 45-55 mm.

In the folk calendar, June 2 is the borage day, cucumbers are planted. June 11 - bread is eared, after June 12 beans are planted.

June 22 - the end of spring, the beginning of summer. Gives all its power to the sun. Time to stock up on hay! The first scythe does not fail - the hay is the best.

Summer is flaring up. Lush green forest. Majestic views of lindens, birches, maples, mighty oaks. A full leaf on giant oaks appears only in the month of June. In the forest, forest bells - lilies of the valley - bloom, strawberries bloom, and strawberries grow along the ravines. Dandelions, chamomiles, bluebells, common yarrow, oak maryannik or popularly Ivan da Marya, cornflowers, cloves, caustic buttercup, celandine are blooming, St. John's wort is blooming. Some of the dandelions have already faded and their downy balls are visible here and there; the wind will blow and numerous seeds will fly through the air, like small light parachutes. Cornflower blue, chamomile, common yarrow, May lily of the valley, St. John's wort, celandine - all this medicinal plants. Bluebells are subject to full protection: broad-leaved and peach-leaved, they cannot be taken.

Pine blossoms in the forests in early June. Honey viburnum blooms, along clearings, edges and along roads - raspberries.

In the gardens, golden currants, an ordinary Irga, a bird cherry, the Siberian hawthorn, the cherry of the steppe, the ordinary lilac, the yellow acacia, the spirea is vyazolite, the honeysuckle of the Tatar, the Barberis, the Ryabin, the Hungarian lilac, was decorated with punted and pink flowers, and later white, tender petals, and later white petals. throw away the jasmine.

The white boiling of apple trees, pears and cherries is gradually subsiding.

In the fields and wastelands, the quail incessantly shouts “it’s time to sleep,” and in the meadow lowlands the corncrake creaks all night long. Chivalrous duels continue at turukhtan waders, snipe-lambs are still playing. Capercaillie, kosach, drake clogged in the support for molting.

The rye is already in the ear and blooming. They dusted the poplars with fluff, generously scattering their lungs, in fluffy seeds, far around. They were visible as snow rollers on the paths and uneven ground.

In the birch groves the first spikelet mushrooms appeared. These are young boletus. In the low plantings of the pine forest, butterflies appeared. Together with the boletus, the first russula are also found. There are about 60 types of russula in our forests and all of them are edible. Green, pink, purple, dark red, blue-violet, deep blue, purple-red, all the colors and shades of the colors of the hats of these mushrooms and you can’t list how many of them and how elegant they are. Mushroom pickers are always happy to collect multi-flowered russula, they taste great, they can be salted and fried. Only here the excessive fragility reduces their value. Green russula are considered the best among mushroom pickers: they are thicker, as they say, more fleshy, and break less than others. In the old forests, you can also find the first white mushrooms. On pastures and along the edges of the meadow, you can pick up meadow mushrooms (meadows), they are boiled and fried. Often they form circles - "witch rings". All these are mushrooms of the first layer, there are still few of them, and this mushroom “layer” will soon disappear. Inveterate lovers of "silent hunting" say: "The real mushroom has not gone yet, the real mushroom will go from August."

How colorful are the outfits of meadow forbs this month! At the beginning of the month of June, the meadow turns blue from the abundance of forget-me-not flowers, then the meadow turns purple - meadow sage has bloomed and now it is already white - daisies bloom. Meadows become especially fragrant when red wild clover, lilac-blue bluebells, red meadow cornflowers and other honey plants bloom on them.

Flowers are the children of the sun, mushrooms are the children of the shadow.

A number of birds - rooks, thrushes, starlings, buntings, finches already have large chicks and parents have to "work" a lot to feed the voracious offspring. Some birds are still busy hatching chicks, while others have just hatched. During the feeding period of chicks, only one pair of small insectivorous birds destroys several tens of thousands of harmful insects. A titmouse, for example, eats as many insects per day as it weighs itself. Often their "working day" lasts from dawn until dark. So, the starling in the summer works seventeen hours a day, the city swallow - eighteen, the swift - nineteen, and the redstart - more than twenty! For example, swifts should bring food at least thirty-five times a day, starlings - about two hundred, spotted woodpecker - up to three hundred, swallows - three hundred, nuthatch - about three hundred and eighty, redstarts - more than four hundred and fifty, and gray flycatchers - almost five hundred times a day. day. And not one fly or mosquito is brought by birds at a time. The swift immediately brings more than two hundred insects in its beak - after all, the daily diet of a chick far exceeds the weight of the chick itself. Thanks to such voracity, the chick increases its weight by 5-6 times in a week.

Color, coloring of eggs can tell a lot. It is known that eggs of light color are hollow-nesting birds. The clutches of waders, gulls, nightjars and all those who lay their eggs right on the ground would not survive if they were not the same color as the ground on which they lie. Forest pipits make nests from stems of dry cereals, hair, less often moss, as a rule, in a deepening of the soil, under the cover of dried grass and branches.

These birds have an amazing variety of egg colors, but they are all speckled - from brownish-gray to pinkish-brown.

June is the month of the formation of young birds. The forest at this time needs absolute silence so as not to prevent feathered parents from raising their pets on the wing.

The evening air is silently pierced by bats that have fluttered out of their dark shelter in search of insects. Scientists have found that these animals make sounds in flight with a frequency of about 50 thousand vibrations per second, and each such sound lasts less than five thousandths of a second. This is the so-called ultrasound. Ear bat registers this when the sound emitted by it bounces off an obstacle. With the help of echo location, they not only perfectly orient themselves in space, but also hunt for nocturnal insects and feed. With the help of a sound-converting device, Moscow zoologists recorded the ultrasonic signals of bats and turned them into low-frequency ones that can be heard by humans. It turned out that the cries of some bats, for example, red evening bats, resemble the abrupt barking of dogs, and bats - a kind of rumbling.

A lot of parental concerns and animals. It is also time for them to raise young animals - for moose, wolves, foxes, badgers and other animals, and for hares, the second brood. Bear weddings have begun: the roar of bears is heard, and sometimes fierce fights arise between males.

Listen to the cheerful singing - the friendly croaking of green frogs - lake and pond. First, one begins to sing, then another, and now, among the sedge and coastal vegetation, a consolidated choir is already sounding. The appearance of the soloists is very funny. They are serious and full of their own dignity. The mother-of-pearl throat swells importantly and solemnly. The voices of frogs and toads are strictly species-specific and varied. This is primarily due to the main function of the voice - to invite to a date.

He already likes to bask in the sun or swim in, putting his head out. Many consider already poisonous snakes, but it's not. And you can distinguish them from a viper quite simply: by the yellow spots located on the sides of the head. Snakes feed on mice, shrews, frogs, and insects.

In damp places, a viviparous lizard comes across. She, like all reptiles with unstable body temperature, loves to bask in the sun. The agile lizard is more brightly colored. The male of this species is bright green in color with small dark spots and stripes. Lives mainly in pine forests, feeds on butterflies, caterpillars and other small insects. In June, the lizard lays up to 13 eggs in the sand, warmed by the sun.

In the evenings, on the grass or by the road, you can see a slowly moving toad. During the day, she hides in the shade from the sun, and at dusk she hunts for insects, bringing great benefits. On warm summer evenings there is an intensified flight of insects.

The month of June has the longest days of the year. People say at such a time - "The dawn converges with the dawn" or "The dawn gives the dawn a hand." As soon as the evening dawn burns out, a new one is already breaking in the east. June 22 is the summer solstice. At noon, the sun is at its highest. According to the astronomical calendar, the summer solstice is considered the beginning of summer. At the end of the month, the days will gradually begin to wane. “The sun is in the winter, and the summer is in the heat,” people notice.

With warming in reservoirs, all aquatic plants grow rapidly, especially elodea; stagnant waters are completely covered with a light green carpet of duckweed.

Tench spawns, carp spawns in ponds. Gudgeon spawning continues.

Hunting is prohibited, amateur fishermen catch fish with summer rods.

In the fields, the collective farmers carry out harrowing of crops, which destroys weed seedlings, retains moisture in the soil, irrigates long-term cultivated pastures, and spuds potatoes in vegetable gardens. "Bad grass - get out of the field!". “Meliorator's Day” is celebrated on the first Sunday of June.

Folk signs about the weather and sayings:

Do not wait for a long summer, but wait for a warm one.

Sow thistle and quinoa - trouble for crops.

Late flowering of mountain ash - by a long autumn.

If in summer it is stuffy at sunrise, it will rain in the evening.

The spider strenuously weaves webs - to dry weather.

Clover brings its leaves closer, bends down - before bad weather.

When a dandelion squeezes its ball, it is a sign of rain.

If the rain starts in large drops, it will soon stop.

If the frogs jump on the shore and croak, then wait for the rain.

Frogs purr - for rain, shout loudly - for good weather, are silent - before cold weather.

The rainbow is red - the weather is clear.

A rainbow with a predominant blue color - to bad weather.

If the rainbow is in the morning, then do not expect good, and if by the evening, there is nothing to be afraid of.

On a summer night, there are many stars in the sky - the day will be hot.

The ring around the sun - to bad weather.

The month is red - to rain and wind.

June is a hoarder, the harvest is saving up for the whole year.

June is the end of the flight, the beginning of summer.

Sultry June - spit on mushrooms.

In the evening, herbs smell strongly - to bad weather.

Sparrows sit puffed up - before the rain.

Swifts fly low - portend rain.

After good rains, the earth is a birthday girl.

Poplar fluff curls in the air, the blush of the year walks, summer “rolls” in July.

From apple blossoms and lilacs to linden blossoms - the first half of summer.

June - rozancet, worm, willow-chak, wreath, milkweed, rose, strawberry, blush, hoarder, grain grower, luniy, isok, bread grower, kresnik.

June was named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno. She was the wife of Jupiter. The goddess Juno patronizes marriage, birth, women and motherhood, it was also believed that it was Juno who was the mistress of the rains. IN June is coming in growth all vegetation. June is the first month of summer, it is at this time that berries and mushrooms begin to appear in the forest. In the old days, June was considered the solstice, the months in which there was summer heat. It is in June that one of the biggest Christian holidays is celebrated, this. In the old days, people, and even now, simply call it the Trinity. Also in June, before the week of the Trinity, it is celebrated, but this holiday belongs to paganism, rather than to Christianity. June 22 is the longest day of the year and the most short night in a year. June is the brightest month of the year, it was called milk.

Popular beliefs and signs in the month of June

• If in the first days of June it rains heavily, then the rest of the month will be dry.
• If the nightingale sings all night, then the next day there will be a strong wind.
• If the nights are warm in June, then there will be a good harvest.
• If in the evening in June after the rain a rainbow appears, then it will be a long time good weather.
• If there are often thunderstorms at night, then the harvest will be rich.
• According to June weather, hay is considered.
• What is the weather in June, such is the harvest in autumn.
• If the lark has made its nest on the ground, then the summer will be very dry, and if it is on a tree, then it will be wet.
• If the mountain ash bloomed late, then the autumn will be long.
• If there is a lot of dew in June, then this portends a rich harvest.
• If there are a lot of fogs in June, then the year promises a big harvest of mushrooms.
• A day in June counts as a year.
• Summer begins with a cuckoo, and warm days begin with a swallow.
• The swallow begins summer, and the nightingale ends summer.
• In the month of June, flowers bloom, and the nightingales sing, life in June is fun, and there is little food.
• In the month of June, dawn converges with dawn.
• In the month of June, spend the night and let each bush.
• In the month of June, the first berry should be put in the mouth, and only then carried home.
• In June, pine and fir trees bloom in the forest.
• The month of June is rich in thunderstorms and lightning.
• If June is spent at work, then there is a reluctance to dance.
• If June has come, then spit on fishing.
• May raises bread, and June hay.
• In June, the bins are always empty.
• If it is already stuffy at sunrise in June, this is bad weather.
• If in the morning in June fog spreads over the water, then there will be good sunny weather.
• If a lot of bees have gathered on a flowering mountain ash and buzz for a long time, the next day will be good weather.
• When the lilacs bloom, it means that summer comes into legal rights.
• If in early June there are a lot of cones on the Christmas trees - to a rich harvest of cucumbers.

In the first decade of June, seedlings are planted, it is at this time that seeds of pumpkin, zucchini, corn, beans, cucumbers and beans should be sown in the ground.

In the second decade of June, watering of fruit-bearing trees begins.

The folk weather calendar will take May.

Day of Ivan Khleborost. It was from this time that the first mushrooms and years began to appear in the forest, and rye began to sprout in the fields.

Day of Falaley (Leontius) - Borage. This day was considered the most favorable for planting cucumbers in open ground. It is on June 2 that cumin and hawthorn begin to bloom.

Deer (Helen) Day - Lenoseyki. Day of Constantine. On this day, they finished sowing bread, and began to sow flax and hemp. If at this time the mountain ash blooms profusely, then there will be a good harvest of flax. And if it rains on Olena (Elena) - Lenoseyka, and a thunderstorm, then autumn will be with rains and strong winds. If this day is a crimson dawn, then strong winds will come soon. If in the evening the blacksmiths chirp, incessantly, then the weather will be fine. If there was a thunderstorm that day, then in the old days people listened to it: if the thunder is far away quiet, then the rain will be quiet, and if there is ringing thunder, then there will be a heavy downpour.

Nightingale day. Basilisk Day.
On this day, they didn’t plow or sow anything, so that there were a lot of cornflowers in the field. It is on this day, according to legend, that lingonberries begin to bloom and wild rose begins to bloom.

The day of Ivan. It was from this day that honey dews began, it was believed that from this day they become harmful. And in the old days, various medicinal roots, herbs, roots were put under the dew on Ivanov's day. But if there is a lot of honeydew on this day, then it was believed that the harvest would be large. It is on this day that chamomile begins to bloom.

On this day, the violet begins to bloom and the yarrow blossoms.

Day of Theodosius Kolosyanitsa. At this time, any ear begins to bloom, rye and rye are poured. If Theodosya Kolosyanitsa came, the rye blossomed. According to various beliefs, sometimes the day of Theodosius Kolosyanitsa was celebrated on June 12.

Jeremy Day. On Yeremey comes the end of every sowing. Summer begins with Yeremey, and ends with Semyon the Pilot. It is on this day that viburnum begins to bloom. And it is on the day of Yeremey that the swarming of bees begins.

Day of Ustin and Khariton. If the dawn is red on Ustin and Khariton, then the rye will be with red filling. And if the morning is cloudy on Ustin and Khariton, then there will be a good harvest of spring crops. It is believed that Ustin pulls up the hemp, and Khariton pulls up the flax.

Day of Luke (Lukyan) Vetrennik. On Luka (Lukyan) Vetrinnik, there are always winds, and it was from them that they determined the weather for the summer. On this day (on the eve of Mitrofan's day on June 17), people did not go to bed early, but listened to where the wind was blowing from. If the wind blew from the south, to a good harvest of spring crops, if the wind is northwest, to rainy summer if the wind is east, it will bring all sorts of diseases, and if the wind is from the east, then there will be a lot of wind in summer. On this day, the first shoots of potatoes appear.

Mitrofan's Day

Dorotheus Day. If the weather is good on this day, then the grain harvest will also be good. Also on this day, they listened to where the wind was coming from. If the wind blows from the south, to a good harvest of spring crops, if the wind is northwestern, to a rainy summer, if the wind is east, it will bring all sorts of diseases, and if the wind is from the east, then there will be a lot of wind in summer. On this day, the fescue begins to bloom.

Hilarion Day. In the old days, weeding the garden and fields begins from this day. "Illarion came - extra grass out of the field."

Saint Fedot's Day. It was believed that it was St. Fedot who leads warmly into golden rye. And if it rained on the day of Fedot, then the rye will be skinny and thin.

Day of Fyodor Summer (Stratilat), (Well).
It was on the day of Fyodor in the old days that people dug wells. There are many thunderstorms on this day. It was believed that it was from this day that the season of summer thunderstorms began. If there was a thunderstorm that morning, it was considered a bad omen, and the hay did not have time to remove it, and it got wet. If June is dry, and there is a lot of dew on Fedor, then Fedor will give a good harvest. It is on this day that Ivan-tea begins to bloom and jasmine begins to smell fragrant. Starting from the day of Fedor, the first chicks begin to hatch in the nests. And some birds start breeding chicks for the second time. From Fedor begins the time of molting in forest animals.

Day of Cyril of Alexandria. This day is the shortest night and the longest day. It is from this day that summer fully comes into its own. The day starts to fade. On Cyril of Alexandria in the villages they begin to mow the canopy and dry it.

Day of Peter the Athos (Peter Turn). This day is considered the last day of sowing cabbage and cucumbers. On this day, there is always a lot of dew in the morning. From that day on, the sun is waning, and the night is gaining.

Akulina Buckwheat Day. It was believed that buckwheat should be sown, either a week before Akulina, or a week after Akulina. It is after this day that many gadflies, horseflies appear, from which livestock begins to suffer greatly. It was on this day that they went to look for the first strawberries in the villages.

It is on this day that chicory and corostavnik bloom.

Tikhon Day. Birds are quiet on this day. After this day, spring crops cannot be sown. It is on this day that St. John's wort begins to bloom.

Saint Manuel's Day. On Manuil the sun stays at its zenith for a long time. All plants are growing. If there is a thunderstorm that day, then this is a good harvest. It is on this day that cornflower begins to bloom in the fields and meadows.