Where buff-tips mate and robber flies lurk
Summer envelops the forest in bright colors, and the forest is not just made up of trees, but of an extremely tight network of various forms of life. These living beings wear all colors and color the entire forest with them.
Flowers
Some of them want to draw attention to themselves with bright colors. For example, the sun-yellow dandelion, which has to be pollinated, or the dog rose, whose rose-red color makes a bush full of glowing lanterns shine against a dark background.
Camouflage
Other organisms prefer not to appear conspicuous. On the contrary, they are adapted to be overlooked by camouflaging their surroundings. The buff-tip moth has a wing pattern that looks like the surface of a branch. This is a life-saving advantage for the relatively large butterflies. In biology, this life strategy is called mimesis. I found the imposing moths on a morning excursion in mating position along the way.
Robber fly
In order to underline the beauty of the shooting moment with the resting fly with an orchestral soundtrack, a polyphonic croaking of green frogs sounds from the neighboring pond, rhythmically enriched by the regular knocking of several woodpeckers nearby.
Berlin, park Rehberge, Mid-May, June to beginning of July 2021,
All copyrights (footage, film, keyboard sound, text) Stefan F. Wirth
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