Tumblebugs 2 FuLLy Cracked
Adrian Rocher
Description: This is a 45 minute blend of open and structured class for children who are ready for more of a challenge. At this level, children are taken on the equipment in groups with a dedicated coach, while the parent helps the child understand how to stay with the group and participate successfully. This is a class that teaches skills and how to behave in a class structure as well as gross-motor coordination and social skills through the use of balance beams, mini-trampolines, bars, rings, tunnels, pit, vault, and tumbling mats. Parent participation required
Attire: Leotards or t-shirts and leggings (Pink leotards, light blue t-shirts provided with membership), no skirts, socks, tights, zippers, snaps or buttons please. Long hair is to be tied up and out of eyes.
Description: This is a 45 minute structured class for children with their adult. At this level, children are taken on the equipment in smalls groups of 6:1 with a dedicated coach while the parent helps the child understand how to stay with the group and participate successfully. This is a structured class that builds gross-motor coordination and social skills through the use of balance beams, mini-trampolines, bars, rings, tunnels, pit, vault, and tumbling mats. Parent participation required
Our Baby Bees Class is specifically for babies from birth. We play with different activities to stimulate the senses and help your baby develop. We work on sensory experiences (e.g visual, auditory and tactile) with physical contact and activities between you and your baby to promote physical co-ordination, emotional and social development. Activities vary weekly but include a blend of massage, cuddle time, rocking, tummy time, music, song and visual/tactile stimulation. Join us for this free community class.
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Located in Petaluma, We offer gymnastics classes for children and adult all ages. Our instructors are caring professionals trained to encourage children to have fun while participating in a challenging gymnastics program.
Sometimes you have to literally get down and dirty to find interesting insects. Poking into animal dung, affectionately known as "scat," is a pretty smelly, gross business, but it can yield a diversity of insect life you are unlikely to see otherwise. A case in point came on April 13 when I visited the Bluestem Prairie Open Space along the edge of Johnson Reservoir just southeast of Colorado Springs.
While dogs are not permitted in the area, I suspect the locals probably bring them in anyway, judging by the tracks and the scat I come across. Still, the overwhelmingly most common canines are coyotes, and their dung invariably contains lots of fur from their prey. This makes their excrement attractive to beetles more commonly found on carrion and mummified carcasses.
Hide beetles in the family Trogidae normally visit the dried-out remains of an animal body when little is left but skin and bones. Indeed, that is what they eat as adults and larvae, along with feathers, fur, and connective tissue. Apparently coyote dung is the next best thing to a dead body. I found a total of three Trox sp. on just one piece of manure. These beetles are almost invariably caked in gunk so as to be nearly unrecognizable as insects, or animals of any sort, really. When disturbed they go voluntarily comatose, so convincingly that I have given them up for dead, stiff specimens. I've been startled by having them re-animate in a vial or cup after several minutes.
Another surprise on this chunk of poop was a skin beetle, Dermestes fasciatus or D. marmoratus, I am not sure which. Again, these beetles are usually much more common on carcasses in advanced stages of decomposition, including wet bones.
There were, however, some honest-to-goodness dung beetles in another piece of coyote scat that was a little....fresher, if one can apply that term to anything that doesn't smell the part. Aphodius fimetarius is a little red and black dung beetle that was introduced to North America from Europe probably a century or more ago. It is now widespread and common here, usually in cow pats. The larvae live and feed in the manure, then dig into the soil beneath it to pupate. There is probably one generation per year.
The other dung beetle I found was one of the dung-rollers or "tumblebugs" as they are affectionately called. This species, Canthon simplex, is relatively tiny, adults measuring only 7-8 millimeters. The adults tear off a pea-sized chunk of poo and roll it into a ball, either females alone or in pairs with males. Rolling the ball away minimizes conflict with other dung beetles. Once a suitable site is located, the female buries the "brood ball" and lays a single egg inside. The grub that hatches feeds inside, eventually pupating within the now hollow sphere.
While I was looking for the dung beetles, a very small rove beetle, family Staphylinidae, raced up a grassblade and flew off before I had a chance to secure it. Rove beetles are predators of other insects, and many species visit dung and carrion to feed on fly maggots. Rove beetles are slender, almost serpentine, with shortened wing covers (elytra), and so may be mistaken for earwigs at first glance. Staphylinids are so diverse that identifying them is next to impossible for anyone but an expert; and it also frequently involves detailed examination of the male's genitalia.
Maybe you are not "into" dung fauna, at least not if it requires pawing through it with or without gloves and/or various instruments. Ok, no one can blame you; but before you dismiss the power of poo altogether, consider my upcoming post "What's on dat scat?" You will be surprised all over again.
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Scarab beetles that feed on dung are called tumble bugs or dung beetles. They dig tunnel-like nests in the ground and fill them with high-quality poop for their larvae to feed on. In some species of tumble bugs, the male and female cooperate in forming and shaping the dung ball, rolling it to a place to be buried. The female lays one egg per dung ball. The developing larva has its own food supply while it is growing up! Male and female tumble bugs may guard the nest from intruders until the larvae have fully developed.
IWEA presents awards each year at the annual conference in August. Deadlines for most IWEA award nominations are May 1st but can be as early as February. If you have any questions regarding submission guidelines or qualifications for any awards, please contact st...@indianawea.org.
The Barbara Smith Award shall be presented to an individual for exceptional dedication to educate and mentor the water and wastewater industry. This award commemorates Barbara Smith, an active IWEA member and past president of IWEA and awards committee chair.
Requirements: The Awards Committee, when deemed appropriate, may recommend a current IWEA member as for the Barbara Smith Award. Awardees will require a unanimous vote of the Executive Committee.
An Honorary Member shall be a person of acknowledged eminence in one or more fields of activity within the scope of the stated objectives of the Association. Candidates may be nominated by the Awards Committee, but can be elected only by favorable secret ballot of the Executive Committee. One negative vote would exclude.
Requirements: This Tumble Bug Award is made to those eminent visitors to IWEA meetings and those friends of the Association deemed worthy by the Awards Committee and/or the Executive Committee. Not more than six (6) members shall be elected in any administrative year.
The Laboratory Excellence Award is given in the form of a plaque to be awarded for outstanding achievement in the implementation of laboratory technique and administration. The awards may be given to municipal facilities for each classification (I, II, III, IV [a] < 10 MGD and IV [b] > 10 MGD).
Candidates for the award shall be determined by the Laboratory Committee and is based upon a graded evaluation of their criteria. Candidates must complete the Laboratory Excellence Award Application and be inspected by a member of the Laboratory committee to be eligible for the Laboratory Excellence Award. To receive the Laboratory Excellence Award each analyte must receive a score of 70% or higher, each section 85% or higher, and an overall score of 90% or higher.
Annually, a member of the Laboratory Committee will travel to labs around the State to conduct thorough lab audits. These audits are similar to the audits performed by IDEM inspectors except these audits are conducted only in labs who voluntarily participate. The audits serve as an excellent tool for hands-on consulting in your actual laboratory.
The award for the creation of an outstanding device may be granted annually to the individual or plant that has developed an outstanding and original device or application of a device which facilitates plant operation.
The award shall consist of a mounted or framed certificate and shall mention the device involved and the originator of the device. Where more than one person is responsible for a major share in developing a device, the Awards Committee may provide for equitable recognition of those concerned.
The recommendation of the Operations and Maintenance Committee shall be based on the originality and thoroughness of the presentation of the device. Such nomination shall be forwarded to the Awards Committee for approval. When deemed advisable by the Committee, more than one award per year may be made.
The Award will be presented to an individual operator of a municipal public, semi-public, or private Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF). The award will be presented to an individual in each of 4 categories based on WRRF Class size (1, 2, 3, 4).
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