Joe Hastings (he / him)
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Joe Hastings (he / him)
@wherewildthingsare.bsky.social
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High school Business & Computer Science Teacher; summer camp counselor / Director; Unified Coach who loves learning about nature. I’m a husband as well as a father to three ‘wild things’. Located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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Would anyone be able to ID the smaller insect that seems to be attacking the lightning bug? This little one landed on my arm (so I could help it?)

I removed the smaller insect and the firefly stretched(?) and rested on my watch.
Lightning bug with smaller unknown insect seemingly attached to lightning bug’s rear. Both insects are on the poster’s arm just above his watch. Another perspective of the Lightning bug with smaller unknown insect seemingly attached to lightning bug’s rear. Lightning bug with smaller unknown insect removed. Firefly is resting on the poster’s watch. Watch is displaying the time and date - Saturday, June 21st 10:25 am.
June 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I don’t remember planting this in my pollinator garden; I must have. But this is just a gorgeous plant.
Purple flowers of a sundial lupine contrast with the green leaves. The photographer holds his hand against the back of a tall stem of a sundial lupine. The author holds up a leaf of a sundial lupine, multiple green leaves radiate outward from the stem A close up of a piece of a sundial lupine.
May 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I finally got to see yellow trout Lillies! Their leaves are so beautiful.
Several “Yellow Trout Lilly” leaves are sticking up through the ground, no flowers, but the cylindrically shaped flat leaves are green with mottled darker colors, resembling the coloring of a trout fish. A single yellow trout lilly leaf standing in front of the hand of the photographer. The green leaf with mottled darker colors stands in contrast with the photographer’s hand.
April 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM