This little beauty is a mirid bug (Deraeocoris ruber)🤠🐞

They inhabit forests, but occur mainly on sunny forest edges and open areas.🌳🌞

Mirid bugs prey on various small arthropods such as caterpillars, but particularly aphids.🌿🐛
The prey is killed and sucked out by a sting that is also painful for humans.🧃😋

But that rarely happens.😄

The species is useful and harmless.🤗 However, nature is full of phenomena. In Germany, 2016, a related species (Psallus varians) - within the same family (Miridae) - spontaneously developed an increased appetite for blood and attacked humans and animals in very large numbers.😵🩸🌳

The mirid bug is widespread in almost all of Europe (except the far north and few islands in the Mediterranean and Atlantic) - you find it in North Africa - and further east to the Caucasus. It has been introduced in some areas of North and South America.🌍🌎

In search of magic.. ✨

I wish you a merry Christmas!🎄🍪💝

🌺 A reminder of spring, against the winter blues. 😊

❄️🕸️❄️🕸️❄️

This morning the whole balcony was hung with white spider webs. It was very foggy at minus 5 degrees. A beautiful, enchanting sight that did not last long. The webs collapsed after a short time. These were the works of garden spiders (Araneus diadematus).🥰
I couldn't stand it for long either and I'm back in quickly! 😄☕

Inescapably beautiful sunset on Monday evening 🥰🌇

European garden spider,
Araneus diadematus
(09/2016 in Oberursel, Germany)

Sometimes I wished that the lookout tower on the Feldberg mountain was actually a space rocket and I had a ticket.

🌍🦥🚀🌌🛸👽🪐

On the other hand... 🌍🌄❤️

The Friedenslinde (Peace Linden) 🌳

Green is the color of hope. I can still remember the first time I heard that saying. I was asked to choose the color for a game called "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht!" (Man, Don't Get Angry!) and I chose green. I didn't win.

Still, I stuck with this color. Because you should never give up hope.

The universe collaborates with me.

😎🤜🤛🌌

Elm samaras embraced by sunlight ✨🌳🌞

Elm fruits have flattened wings. Such fruits are called samaras. The deciduous tree already flowers before the leaves are formed. 💚

Wish you a Happy Easter! 💛