A quick trip to the countryside to check on the spring rush.
Blooming trees, bushes, fields covered in colorful flowers and among all the insects that will eat while they can and all the predators that want to eat those juicy buggers.
Like a insect happy hour :)
I saw this overgrown and blooming cabbage plants. It was as tall as me and still had quite a lot of not so small white flowers opening. The stem will probably bloom until it is cur down. Bottom of it had seedpods nearly ready and the top was still producing buds.
Of course few types of bees could not resist it.
A tiny little bug :)
And then, in one of the flowers something dark moved.
Crab Spiders (I know they are not insects) are my second favourite after Jumping Spiders.
They do not build webs to hunt. They will sit inside of a flower, or hide behind petals and will wait. Until an unaware insect comes close enough and then in a split second they will attack it and kill it.
Most of the time they will also blend with a flowers, this one looks like it belongs somewhere else.
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Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.