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jtkindt.bsky.social
@jtkindt.bsky.social
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Bees and Me: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TTyMmimrCSsGqAGrhZ0mZPOMwgMfhSt6dlaAUsw6I2Y/mobilepresent?slide=id.p

iNat profile: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/1809393

Photos from Atlanta, US area unless otherwise noted. Opinions are my own.
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New sign for picketing ICE #ATL field office this Wednesday. Come join me, or just drive by and honk! (180 Ted Turner Drive SW)

Feel free to DM for more info.
#abolishICE #protest #resist
Sign reading “Nobody is thankful for I.C.E.”.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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New sign for picketing ICE #ATL field office the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Come join me, or just drive by and honk! (180 Ted Turner Drive SW)

Feel free to DM for more info.
#abolishICE #protest #resist
Sign reading “NOBODY IS THANKFUL for I.C.E.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
jtkindt.bsky.social
New sign for picketing ICE #ATL field office this Wednesday. Come join me, or just drive by and honk! (180 Ted Turner Drive SW)

Feel free to DM for more info.
#abolishICE #protest #resist
Hand-lettered sign reading “Nobody is thankful for I.C.E.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Basswood leafminer beetle, Baliosus nervosus, from late October ‘23. #bugsky #beetles #naturephotography #insects
Insect with small bumps all over its body; bumpy ridges on its abdomen with yellow, orange, and purplish coloration, on a green leaf.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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For #flyday a Yellow-haired Sun Fly, Myathropa florea, seen in Siena, Italy 5/2023.

Also known as the Batman hoverfly for the pattern on its thorax.

#flyfriday #flyday #insects #macrophotography #bugsky
Fly with orange and black stripes on its abdomen, curved gray patches on a black thorax that frame a kind of bat shape, yellow fringe of hair all around its body, big eyes and thin antennae, on a cluster of tiny white flowers.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Always exciting to find a class of arthropods I didn't know existed living in my yard-a quasi-centipede of class Symphyla, genus Hanseniella seen in dirt under a brick. Grateful to the whole #iNaturalist community for making these discoveries accessible to so many. #bugsky #inverts #macrophotography
Whitish centipede-like creature with 12 segments, thin legs on each segment, antennae about 1/3 the length of its body, two pointy protrusions from the last segment, against dark red earth.
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I don't usually spend time photographing ants, not because they aren't cool but because they hardly ever stop moving!

This one (I think Camponatus subbarbatus) was tending aphids (sp?) on burnweed (Erechtites hieraciifolius), and I managed decent shots of both. #bugsky #inverts #macrophotography
Upper panel: ant (brownish-red with some light markings) on a plant stem with two green aphids. Lower panel: same ant on a plant stem with many aphids, some green and some blue and looking like they have the color (and texture) of denim.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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New sign for today’s #teslatakedown action 2 PM at Decatur Tesla.

Find an event near you: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
Sign reading “400,000 child deaths from USAID cuts; it’s Elon’s Fault”
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Happy #flyday! Here is an eight-spotted tumbling flower beetle, Hoshihananomia octopunctata from July of this year.

If you look closely you can see I caught it excreting out a little clear ball. Don’t know if that is waste or a waxy secretion it will spread on its body.

#insects #macro
Beetle with long black body and pointy tail, white spots and curls on its wings, white lines on its thorax, white marks on its body, with a small clear sphere emerging from its butt, drinking nectar from tiny green porcelain berry flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Tiny Oregon Lady Beetle, Hippodamia oregonensis, seen on a flower high on a ski slope in Colorado this past July. This species seems to only inhabit high altitude habitats. #bugsky #insects #macrophotography #bloomscrolling
Lady beetle with narrow red body, four dark spots and a large dark patch near head with two smaller white marks, on a yellow and white flower.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Hoverfly (oblique streaktail) on late season aster.

This one is a male, from yesterday before it got cold.

#bloomscrolling #insects #macrophotography
#naturephotography
Fly with large round red eyes that meet at the top of its head, white face, short orange antennae, bronze thorax and long narrow body with black and orange patterns, perched on the yellow center of a small aster flower with narrow white petals (or are they rays technically?).
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Neopupina crocea (per iNat), El Yunque Puerto Rico 12/24
Snail with long shell on wet ground; first turn is smooth and white and further turns are brown and pitted. Snail’s grey head protrudes a bit, and there is a small red eyestalk or antenna poking up.
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Looks like Eastern Whitelips, Neohelix albolabris, from Helen, GA 11/2022. Chestnut colored helical shell with yellow rim around the opening, thick bumpy brown neck and long black eyestalks on a brown leaf.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Hoverfly (oblique streaktail) on late season aster.

#bloomscrolling #insects #macrophotography
Side view of Fly with red eyes, short orange antennae, bronze metallic shiny scutum, golden fuzzy scutellum,thin abdomen curved downwards with yellow and black stripes, yellow legs with dark bands, sipping from yellow flower parts at surrounded by thin white petals.
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Masked #bee I saw today. She is bubbling to concentrate the slurry of nectar and pollen collected from the last few goldenrods and carried internally. She will leave a glob of this with each egg laid in a nest that she makes watertight by secreting a polymer coating. #insects #macrophotography
Wasp-like bee with black nearly hairless body, yellow markings on face, thorax, and legs, mouth parts supporting a droplet of opaque yellow liquid, agains a backdrop of yellow goldenrod flower parts. I believe the ID is Hylaeus floridanus or georgicus based on many other photos.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Some goth flies from last weekend to wrap up #flyday. Tachinid fly Juriniopsis adjusta and the appealingly named Wavy Mucksucker (Orthonevra nitida).
#natureismetal #insects #macrophotography #flyfriday
Fly on small yellow and white flower. Fly has white face, dark red eyes, and spiky hairs on its body and legs. Fly whose eyes have darker curvy designs on them and a bronze thorax. (Unfortunately not all in focus).
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Coming back to Decatur Tesla Saturday November 15 2-4 PM.

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Protestors with signs in front of a Tesla dealership.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Happy #flyday ! A couple of gorgeous hoverflies from last weekend, gorgeous weather after a week of gloom in Atlanta. Spilomyia longicornis, (eastern hornet fly, which puts on an intimidating hornet imitation) and Helophilis fasciatus, narrow-headed marsh fly.
#flyfriday #insects #macrophotography
Fly that looks like a yellowjacket on small white aster flower. Fly has yellow stripes on abdomen, a yellow chevron on thorax, and yellow stripes on its big eyes. Hoverfly on a brown leaf. Fly has yellow and bronze patterns on abdomen, four longitudinal bronze lines on a black thorax, and large dark eyes.
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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In late fall, male dark-winged sweat #bees (Lasioglossum fuscipenne) emerge in large numbers to loiter on the asters and hope to get lucky like this one did. (Females can be found in low numbers through spring and summer; anyone know about their life cycle?)

#insects #bugsky #macrophotography
Dark female bee with dark wings, wide orangish hair bands on abdomen and brush of reddish hair on rear leg, on small daisy-like flower, mounted by male bee, head out of focus, long antennae stretched back over head, dark wings, abdomen with thin white hair bands. These are actually about to separate after (I assume) copulation, which I didn’t catch on camera.
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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After a cold rainy week, a few #bees back on the remaining flowers today. This is a female masked bee, I think Hylaeus mesillae, on Solidago. Masked bees are not good pollinators because they carry pollen internally instead of on body hairs.
#inverts #bugsky #macrophotography #nativeplants
A black bee with a few light yellow markings- vertical mark visible on lower left side of face, irregular light patch on side of thorax, hand on rear tibia- on goldenrod florets.
November 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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OK this one has a better Halloween vibe I think. Toxomerus boscii, thin-lined calligrapher. #flyfriday #flyday #insects #macrophotography #bugsky
Fly with wings extended, abdomen is orange with dark markings that look like a calligrapher's doodles.
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Halloween is last day for early voting in Georgia. mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/advanced-v... for locations in your county.
Sticker with a peach reading “I’m a Georgia Voter” on a shirt front.
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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#flyfriday Halloween edition. Eristalis transversa, transverse-banded flower fly. #flyday #insects #macrophotography #bugsky
Fly with big dark red eyes, dark scutum, yellow scutellum, yellow and black pattern on abdomen on a small white flower.
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Happy Halloween! Marbled orbweaver Araneus marmoreus, aka pumpkin spider to wrap up #arachtober. From 11/2021.

#inverts #macrophotography #bugsky
Bulbous bright orange spider with a little tangle of silk coming out of her belly. Small head, yellow and black banded legs are held in close.
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Neoscona domiciliorum, Red-femured Spotted Orbweaver from 9/22 for #Arachtober 30.

#inverts #macrophotography
Top view of an orbweaver spider with a fuzzy abdomen, brown with a white inverted cross pattern, legs are dark with white bands towards extremities and red bands on femurs.
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM