Kin Cards
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Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Common Eastern Bumble Bee is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours. Every spring a queen wakes alone and prospects for an abandoned mouse burrow, a stump, or a clump of grass... -
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Wild Cherry Sphinx Moth
Wild Cherry Sphinx is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours. They're one of Ontario's largest moths, with an 11 cm wingspan. There are only eight records of them in the Kingston... -
Swamp White Oak
Swamp White Oak is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours, a tree who has lived in the Carolinian Forest of southwestern Ontario since the glaciers retreated. Climate is asking them to... -
Hen of the Woods
Hen of the Woods is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours, living inside the decaying heartwood of elder Oaks. Their mycelium can live inside an Oak for decades before they fruit... -
Pileated Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours, a year-round resident who reads the forest by percussion. After settlers cleared the forests, they were absent from Kingston's watersheds for nearly... -
Spring Peeper
Spring Peeper is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours. In winter their heart stops. Their liver floods their blood with glucose and ice forms between their cells. In spring they thaw.... -
Little Brown Bat
Little Brown Bat is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours, echolocating in night sky. Their calls reach 25 to 50 kHz, mapping the river, the wetland, insect. Since 2010, white-nose syndrome... -
Swamp Milkweed
Swamp Milkweed is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours, growing along the edges of creeks, rivers, and wetlands. Their vanilla-scented flowers open in July. These kin cards are an invitation to... -
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Green Darner Dragonfly
Green Darner is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours, a dragonfly who has been migrating through this place for 300 million years. No individual ever completes the journey. Their grandmother left...
