Beautiful wandering with a picturesque landscape in Averbode 😊🙃

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When you open the car door and see this cute crawler, your heart will jump with happiness!
Marpissa muscosa is one of the largest jumping spiders in Central Europe and can reach a length of up to 11 mm (females). The females have black-rimmed eyes with a wide orange band underneath.
The species builds a kind of nest under the bark of dead trees (or in between your car door). Up to 100 of these nests can occur side by side. They demonstrate a social hierarchy: weaker spiders will acknowledge their inferiority by strutting their front legs and slowly retreating from the scene.

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Common yellowjacket,
Vespula vulgaris
(08/2020 in Oberursel, Germany)

Until around mid-August they mainly feed on protein in form of insects or meat. This is how they supply the larvae. As soon as the adults no longer have to take care of the brood, they need sugar to survive. That's why they get annoying. But that's no reason to kill or torment them. They do valuable services: pollinate plants and keep the environment clean. In contrast to the wasp, humans have a large brain.

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💕🕸🕷💕 I have two Oscars now! 😄 Ow... no... he just molted.😆

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💕🕸🕷💕 Oscar is my newest buddy. A tarantula of the genus Grammostola... not totally sure if it's a Grammostola rosea or porteri... or even a hybrid.🔍 I recently adopted him. He presents you his great fur using the super trendy water drop photography.😀💧🌈

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The sloth enjoyed a sunny Sunday along with Mother Nature! 🌞🌼🐝 ⠀
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🎶 Music: "Delta Blues"
👤 by Stefan Kartenberg 🔖 2020 - Licensed under
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Crane fly,
Tipula sp.❤
(05/2003 in Oberursel, Germany)

Isn't it beautiful?😍 Crane flies are completely harmless.😁 Many believe they are huge mosquitoes.😆 Their mandibles are only suitable for absorbing water and nectar and can't penetrate through the skin.☝ What can end fatally, however, is to get the giggles from people panicking around the whole apartment.😂🙈🙉🙊




Do you see behind the wings these small stems with the thickening at the end? In evolutionary terms, these are reduced wings and serve as orientation. They are called halteres and are a fascinating development of Mother Nature. Many other flying insects have that too. Simply said, the halteres swing through the wing movements, and as the animal changes direction, the vibration also changes.💡

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Great house spider, Eratigena atrica 🕷💕
When someone asks me to identify a spider, it's usually the great house spider. With a size of up to 2 cm, it's the largest spider found in German houses. It's pretty nimble: 50 cm per second! The bite can cause a light swelling, but they don't bite without being provoked. By the way, the wasp spider is even bigger than the great house spider (up to 2.5 cm). But those can only be found in nature.

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Common crab spider,
Xysticus cristatus 🕷💕 She came to my apartment because it's getting cold outside. I gave her a lesser mealworm. We can become good friends! 😊

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