When I took the first photo I was wondering why the bee was not flying away and I thought the pollen basket looked kind of dry but I was in a hurry. I saw the white thing on the lavender bloom and quickly dismissed it as part of a white blossom. But now that I’m looking at it on the much bigger computer screen and – well you see it, too, don’t you? It was murder! The bee is dead. It is a dead bee. The bee has passed on. The bee is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-bee!
In honour of this bee who has shaken off the mortal coil I show the photo without any editing except for a bit of cropping.
And now for the edited photos. Purple is opposite to green on the colour circle – so I thought I play around a bit with the negative tool.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Close-up on Nature
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pictures imperfect blog 
Oh no, ambush! That’s a sneaky spider and a lovely butterfly shot, thank you.
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That looks like some kind of white spider. I keep thinking of spiders with webs to catch their prey.
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Ghost Spiders are jumping spiders and lay in wait for lunch to come to them
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I checked and there are no ghost spiders in central Europe. Apparently it is a flower crab spider. Do ghost spiders jump? Crab spiders apparently just wait patiently until they strike.
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Ghost spiders are a type of Crab Spider or so called here. Probably as they are white and scare the hell out of any insect they jump out onto 😂
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Apparently it is a flower crab spider – they sit on flowers and wait for their prey.
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I guess a Ghost Spider has to eat sometime. Great photos albeit a bit sad for the bee
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