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Just in Time for Halloween

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Last on the SD card in my camera: From an outing with our grandson the day before yesterday, it’s the tv tower in Mannheim.

Last on the SD card in my cell phone: A new lodger in our garage, a nosferatu spider. The species name is actually Zoropsis spinimana, the common name is derived from the marking on its back. It is new to Germany, having moved from warmer areas (due to climate change, no doubt). So for the first time there is a spider in Germany that can actually hurt human beings – they will bite if they are threatened. The bite is comparable to a mosquito bite or small bee sting (yes, Australians may laugh at this point). This particular one is a female, as my more knowledgeable friends tell me, and its body is just under 2 cm long.

For Bushboy’s Last on the Card in October.

Murder! She Snapped

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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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