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Samantha Gallagher

@samanthagallagher.bsky.social

The artist. Not the chick from Shameless.

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Gross.

03.07.2025 03:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much for the opportunity! 💛🐛🐞🪲

11.04.2025 23:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Me, older White man, gray hair and beard with wire frame glasses, smiling, wearing long sleeve gray shirt, and holding my new book. Book is softcover, green, with magnifying glass, titled “Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects.” Background is a pegboard screen with a cross stitch sign reading “Bug Eric.”

Me, older White man, gray hair and beard with wire frame glasses, smiling, wearing long sleeve gray shirt, and holding my new book. Book is softcover, green, with magnifying glass, titled “Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects.” Background is a pegboard screen with a cross stitch sign reading “Bug Eric.”

Got my advance copy of my new book, “Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects.” You can preorder now from Princeton University Press. Shoutout to @samanthagallagher.bsky.social for the amazing illustrations!

11.04.2025 22:15 — 👍 253    🔁 45    💬 21    📌 3
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Sheeeeeeeeeit #gotyoass

#bugsky
#insectphotography
#masonbee

02.04.2025 19:14 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This year I hope to get better at IDing them from photos 😍 I have no idea how you do it haha

31.03.2025 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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HAHAHAHAHA I forgot I made this and never posted it 🤣 #bugsky #bugtalk #insects

31.03.2025 13:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I ended up finding a bunch more! Only in male bees. So exciting!

21.03.2025 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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LOOK WHAT I FINALLY FOUND! 🤩🥳 #strepsiptera #andrena #goodbeeday

21.03.2025 16:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

18.03.2025 05:32 — 👍 16509    🔁 4086    💬 310    📌 357
Screenshot of a reddit post on r/fednews that reads: DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS. There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries. IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant. There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities. This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.

Screenshot of a reddit post on r/fednews that reads: DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS. There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries. IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant. There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities. This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.

Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down

20.03.2025 16:40 — 👍 667    🔁 431    💬 21    📌 35

Spectacular! 😍

12.03.2025 03:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A beautiful one to see and hear!

11.03.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much! I agree, I love watching both the males and the females!

10.03.2025 22:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you know stipple paper is a thing? I drew this A. manicatum on it from this reference photo I took some years back. I adore these charismatic little fellas, the original and prints are available on my website 💛🖤

www.samanthagallagherillustration.com/product-page... #bugsky #beedrawing #beeart

10.03.2025 15:37 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Bee Facts! Excellent! 😃 For years whenever I got a solicitor texting me, I’ve replied with “Thank you for signing up for Daily Bee Facts!” And then I hit them their first fact. Longest streak was one guy for about 10 days who finally got weird on me and it wasn’t fun any more.

10.03.2025 14:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Soon up here in Zone 5, the Salix will begin blooming, feeding hungry early-emerging bees like this Andrena shown here 💛 Colored pencil drawing, 9”x12” and I have prints available in my shop 😊 #andrena #bugsky #beedrawinf #beeart #Insectart

www.samanthagallagherillustration.com/product-page...

09.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NOW who’s the one with all the cards, Mr. President??? Mmmm hmmm

05.03.2025 04:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😍 love this!

05.03.2025 03:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just heard Sandhill Cranes fly by!!🥹🥹🥹

04.03.2025 16:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you!! 🙏

03.03.2025 23:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish 😊

03.03.2025 23:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Out here at #WildThings2025 !!

01.03.2025 21:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I see posts from time to time that say “somebody, somewhere needs flowers right now” and a beautiful flower photo. So…. Maybe somebody, somewhere needs freshwater fish native to North America right now. Here ya go! fish #fishart #fishdrawing #fishillustration

24.02.2025 15:00 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Happy Birthday Dr. Dre!! 🤗💛

19.02.2025 03:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

jamelle is correct

15.02.2025 18:53 — 👍 39002    🔁 5378    💬 1260    📌 158

Oh yes, thank you. All I get is rage bait political stuff, which was briefly informative but is too draining all the time.

13.02.2025 04:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

MS in Entomology :)

13.02.2025 04:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had no idea there are different feeds!

13.02.2025 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I messed up my algorithm over here, I hope finding a lot of my OG IG peeps helps get it back on track!

13.02.2025 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Found you! ☺️

13.02.2025 00:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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