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Gabes Niles, local DJ and producer, shares his story of life as a creative NOMAD for CreativeMornings Virginia Beach on Friday, August 15th 8:30-10am. For almost 20 years, Gabe Niles, aka BugMan, aka DJ Sup Ladies, has traveled for creative gigs both in Virginia and throughout the US. Hear his story of personal exploration and realization from a life spent traveling from one gig to another. Working with national musicians, large festivals and local creatives, Gabe has built a network of professionals dedicated to making space for diversity and creativity.
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Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
Found loads of Bagworm Moth caterpillars today on the flood defence wall at Attenborough, I find these absolutely fascinating, I have been looking at what they have constructed their mobile homes with, it seems a mixture of fine grains of sand, detritus and dead insect parts. In the main image you can clearly see remnants of insect wings in the construction, in others you can see insect/spider leg parts and bits of elytra.
The caterpillar larvae of the Psychidae construct cases out of silk and environmental materials such as sand, soil, lichen, or plant materials. These cases are attached to rocks, trees or fences while resting or during their pupa stage, but are otherwise mobile. The larvae of some species eat lichen, while others prefer green leaves. In many species, the adult females lack wings and are therefore difficult to identify accurately. Case-bearer cases are usually much smaller, flimsier, and consist mainly of silk, while bagworm "bags" resemble caddisfly cases in their outward appearance – a mass of (mainly) plant detritus spun together with silk on the inside.
Bagworm cases range in size from less than 1 cm to 15 cm among some tropical species. Each species makes a case particular to its species, making the case more useful to identify the species than the creature itself. Cases among the more primitive species are flat. More specialized species exhibit a greater variety of case size, shape, and composition, usually narrowing on both ends. Body markings are rare. Adult females of many bagworm species have only vestigial wings, legs, and mouthparts. The adult males of most species are strong fliers with well-developed wings and feathery antennae but survive only long enough to reproduce due to underdeveloped mouthparts that prevent them from feeding. Their wings have few of the scales characteristic of most moths, instead having a thin covering of hairs.
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Finally got out and about today, so I headed over to Wollaton Hall and this was my bonus find the Bark sac spider or Clubiona corticalis.
Clubiona corticalis, the 'Bark sac spider', is a species of 'spiders' belonging to the family Clubionidae.
This species is present in most of Europe and in Central Asia.
The adult males of these spiders reach 6–10 millimetres (0.24–0.39 in) of length, while females are 7–10 millimetres (0.28–0.39 in) long.
Clubiona corticalis
The (prosoma) and the legs are glossy reddish-brown or light brown, except the jaws (chelicerae), that are much darker. The abdomen (opisthosoma) is brown or dark brown, with leaf-shaped central markings on a clearer background. The two sexes are quite similar, except for slender abdomen of males.
Sexually mature spiders can be encountered from April to September in coniferous forests, mainly unders loose bark of dead trees (hence the Latin name corticalis, meaning 'of cortex'), more rarely under stones, but sometimes in houses.
The females lay their eggs in the early Summer, watching over them until they hatch. These spiders usually die at the end of Summer, just some of them overwinter in their nest until next Spring.
Apparently if you get bitten by one of these it can cause 'Immediate pain to finger, followed by blisters on arm.' But do not worry these are very unlikely to bite, the specimen I found displayed no aggression at all.
Anyway, this is a 10 image handheld focus stack and is well worth viewing on black :o)
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OMG I was so elated and over the moon with joy when our paths crossed on a walk, instead of slithering off this beautiful Grass Snake coiled up in a small hollow. So I thought what's the best way to get close, but still keep a safe distance, answer Tamron 180mm Macro on 36mm of extension tubes on a mini tripod. This way I was a safe non threatening distance from the snake and I felt safe as well, I know they are not venomous, but I still didn't want to chance a bite LOL :o)
So this is my very first UK Reptile photograph and boy what a beauty, it did have a few strange white marks on it, looked like bird poo, but not sure what it was.
I hope everyone has a great week :o)
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Gabes Niles, local DJ and producer, shares his story of life as a creative NOMAD for CreativeMornings Virginia Beach on Friday, August 15th 8:30-10am. For almost 20 years, Gabe Niles, aka BugMan, aka DJ Sup Ladies, has traveled for creative gigs both in Virginia and throughout the US. Hear his story of personal exploration and realization from a life spent traveling from one gig to another. Working with national musicians, large festivals and local creatives, Gabe has built a network of professionals dedicated to making space for diversity and creativity.
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Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
Gabes Niles, local DJ and producer, shares his story of life as a creative NOMAD for CreativeMornings Virginia Beach on Friday, August 15th 8:30-10am. For almost 20 years, Gabe Niles, aka BugMan, aka DJ Sup Ladies, has traveled for creative gigs both in Virginia and throughout the US. Hear his story of personal exploration and realization from a life spent traveling from one gig to another. Working with national musicians, large festivals and local creatives, Gabe has built a network of professionals dedicated to making space for diversity and creativity.
creativemornings.com/talks/hear-how-the-nomad-live-has-sh...
Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
Gabes Niles, local DJ and producer, shares his story of life as a creative NOMAD for CreativeMornings Virginia Beach on Friday, August 15th 8:30-10am. For almost 20 years, Gabe Niles, aka BugMan, aka DJ Sup Ladies, has traveled for creative gigs both in Virginia and throughout the US. Hear his story of personal exploration and realization from a life spent traveling from one gig to another. Working with national musicians, large festivals and local creatives, Gabe has built a network of professionals dedicated to making space for diversity and creativity.
creativemornings.com/talks/hear-how-the-nomad-live-has-sh...
Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
This was a very unexpected surprise, I turned over a small bit of bark that was lying on the ground and I noticed this little one. Imust admit I have never found one of these on a macro hunt before, this is a member of the order Siphonaptera, commonly known to us as the FLEA!!!!!
I am not sure as to what type of Flea this is, it was found in a Deer Park, but there are many other potential hosts. Anyway, pretty sure it did not jump onto me, but even finding one is guaranteed to set off the psychosomatic itching LOL.
Fleas are the insects forming the order Siphonaptera. They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals (including bats and humans) and birds.
Fleas are wingless insects (1/16 to 1/8-inch (1.5 to 3.3 mm) long) that are agile, usually dark colored (for example, the reddish-brown of the cat flea), with tube-like mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of their hosts. Their legs are long, the hind pair well adapted for jumping: a flea can jump vertically up to 7 inches (18 cm) and horizontally up to 13 inches (33 cm). This is around 200 times their own body length, making the flea one of the best jumpers of all known animals (relative to body size), second only to the froghopper.
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Gabes Niles, local DJ and producer, shares his story of life as a creative NOMAD for CreativeMornings Virginia Beach on Friday, August 15th 8:30-10am. For almost 20 years, Gabe Niles, aka BugMan, aka DJ Sup Ladies, has traveled for creative gigs both in Virginia and throughout the US. Hear his story of personal exploration and realization from a life spent traveling from one gig to another. Working with national musicians, large festivals and local creatives, Gabe has built a network of professionals dedicated to making space for diversity and creativity.
creativemornings.com/talks/hear-how-the-nomad-live-has-sh...
Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
Gabes Niles, local DJ and producer, shares his story of life as a creative NOMAD for CreativeMornings Virginia Beach on Friday, August 15th 8:30-10am. For almost 20 years, Gabe Niles, aka BugMan, aka DJ Sup Ladies, has traveled for creative gigs both in Virginia and throughout the US. Hear his story of personal exploration and realization from a life spent traveling from one gig to another. Working with national musicians, large festivals and local creatives, Gabe has built a network of professionals dedicated to making space for diversity and creativity.
creativemornings.com/talks/hear-how-the-nomad-live-has-sh...
Photography by Misty Saves the Day.