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Island rats can't even get past our traps. #charleston #pestcontrol #rodentcontrol #bugman #sullivansisland
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.
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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.
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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.
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Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
OK I don't often post dead stuff, but I thought this was interesting and worthy of a mention. I was out in the Country Park, trying to get a shot of a Ruddy Darter, but it would not play fair. It was just as I was giving up I noticed this fly on the grass, nothing strange there you say.
On closer inspection I realised that it was no more, a deceased fly, stone cold dead in fact. The strange thing is this is how it died, upside down and holding onto the grass for dear life (Or Death) in the position shown.
I was wondering if this was a victim of a fungal infection and the fungi has not yet gone to spore. The likely candidate could be the fungi Entomophthora muscae, but I see no evidence of the usual sporulation, but the fungi does cause the fly to climb to a highpoint and strike a similar pose to this. I mean if the fly had just died from old age, it would surely just drop to the ground. Can anyone shed any light on this mystery :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.
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.
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.
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Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
I was extremely pleased to find these running about at Wollaton Park. If you remember I found one last year, this is a Mesopsocus sp. These are a type of Barkfly, they are quite large as Barkfly go and these were about 3-4mm long. They are very active little things and spend their time running about, but luckily for me every so often they seem to freeze and will stay motionless for a few seconds.
This one stayed put long enough for an 18 image handheld focus stack at about 3-4x mag, I used ISO 400, aperture F/5.6 and a 1/160 shutter speed. I think these are one of the most unusual insects I find, they really are cool critters :o)
I was fortunate to find these at Harrison's Plantation here in Nottingham, This is Deuterosminthurus bicinctus another species of the Bourletiellidae family that performs a courtship dance. The male in this image is the smaller one with the 2 dark areas on the abdomen. The female is the larger pale and slightly mottled individual. These were found in woodland and again focusing on a leaf in poor light was very tricky, so very pleased that I captured this scene. These again are generally about 1mm for the females and 0.7mm for the males, they were hardly visible on the leaf to the naked eye :o)
Looks like the rain is back again, this surely can't go on like this, oh well, ho hum, looks like it's going to be a weekend of Collembola LOL :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.
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.
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Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
I was really pleased to finally witness one of the wonders of the macro world, this is my first capture of the Deuterosminthurus pallipes courtship dance, these little guys were on top of my favourite white bench at Wollaton Park (The only white bench as well).
On the left is a female and she is courting with a smaller male on the right, also there is another male trying to butt in on the action. It really was a mad scene to watch, they were everywhere, there were yellow ones, purple ones and these reddish ones, I have included an extra image in the comments, but I have loads, really tricky to photograph these, a DOF nightmare, they are fast and the top of the bench is curved, also I always hate photographing stuff on a gloss white background. I think I will try some video footage next time, I will set up a tripod over the bench and see if I can get any decent footage, it is great to watch.
Sorry not been on Flickr much, still a poor internet connection and this heat is getting a bit much :o)
Taken with the MP-E at x5, the female was just under 1mm at a guess.
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Well I spent the afternoon searching for Collembola in local woodland, I wasn't going to do a bug upload today, but I really liked this little one. Now I'm sure this is a juvenile Allacma fusca, this one was about 1mm long at a guess, they do get a lot bigger than this. This shows a definite pink colouration and it will eventually become brown in colour.
For this I was experimenting with combinations of tubes and teleconverters, this I think was just 36mm of extension tubes on a 1.4x teleconverter and an F/5.6 aperture. I was also messing about with backdrops as well, this was a light grey card, thought it gave it a nice daytime feel :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.
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.
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Photography by Misty Saves the Day.
Thought I'd do a Stenacidia violacea set, I have a small area at Wilford Claypit, its a small patch of exposed ground surrounded by vegetation, there is a bit of moss there as well, I find quite a variety of Collembola in this small area and Stenacidia violacea is one of the more frequent visitors.
The females of this species grow to about 0.7mm and the males to 0.5mm, the females are generally a reddish colour, although I have seen some variation here. I have only ever found one of the males (See comments) and they are small, they have long antennae that are modified to interlock with the females antennae for part of their mating ritual, unfortunately I have yet to capture this. The male pictured here was about 0.3-0.4mm long and very hard to get any in depth details, I need more magnification LOL :o)
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Another day, another squirrel rescued from a chimney. #charlestonsc #pestcontrol #wildliferemoval #catchandrelease #bugman
So pleased to finally find my first Large Bee Flies of 2013, also a first as I managed to get shots of them using my MP-E and even more of a first is that this is a 7 image handheld focus stack taken on a very windy day LOL. I decided to approach them at x1 magnification and used an F/9 aperture for this one. This is a female of the species, female Diptera generally have compound eyes that are separated, whereas males have compound eyes that almost meet in the middle.
A few Wiki bits n bobs on this fascinating Bombyliidae :o)
The large bee fly, Bombylius major, is a bee mimic. The eggs are flicked by the adult female toward the entrance of the underground nests of solitary bees and wasps. After hatching, the larvae find their way into the nests to feed on the grubs.
Bombylius major can be found in April to June throughout temperate Europe and North America and some parts of Asia.
Bombylius major has several host species, including beetle larvae and the brood of solitary wasps and bees particularly digging bees such as Andrena. They mimic bees to allow them to get close to the bees burrow. When close, the female will flick the eggs into or near the nests of the host insects. The larvae are hypermetamorphic parasitoids which then feed on the food stored, as well as the young solitary bees or wasps. If the female is unable to flick her eggs near the nest she plants them on flowers visited by the host insects. The developing larvae then make their way to the host nest or attach themselves to the bees or wasps to then be carried to the nest. Although Bombylius major is an excellent pollinator, the larvae limit the population of other pollinators.
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