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Samantha Gallagher
@samanthagallagher.bsky.social
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The artist. Not the chick from Shameless.
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Gross.
July 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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bugeric.bsky.social
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!
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.”
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
samanthagallagher.bsky.social
Sheeeeeeeeeit #gotyoass

#bugsky
#insectphotography
#masonbee
April 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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HAHAHAHAHA I forgot I made this and never posted it 🤣 #bugsky #bugtalk #insects
March 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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LOOK WHAT I FINALLY FOUND! 🤩🥳 #strepsiptera #andrena #goodbeeday
March 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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.
www.worldwildlife.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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sunpanbreadroll.bsky.social
Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down
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.
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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
March 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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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...
March 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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NOW who’s the one with all the cards, Mr. President??? Mmmm hmmm
March 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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I just heard Sandhill Cranes fly by!!🥹🥹🥹
March 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Out here at #WildThings2025 !!
March 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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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
February 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Happy Birthday Dr. Dre!! 🤗💛
February 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
jamelle is correct
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 15
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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MyRadar still holding on! 🤩
February 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I have no pretty art photos to post. These days I’m busy using a liner paintbrush to move and examine propodeal corbicula hairs, or dust pollen from tibial scopae. Some of it reminds me of Cheeto dust 🧡 which makes me laugh, and makes me hungry. And I forget to take photos for the socials.
February 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Restocked a couple packs of note cards! Printing more for Wild Things coming up March 1. What collection of notecards would you like to see? 🤔 #wildthings #artcards #insectart #rustypatchedbumblebee #fineart #insectillustration
February 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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November 9, compared to today, same store locally. Hope everyone got what they voted for❤️🤍💙 🇺🇸 #mygroceriesaretooexpensive #MAGA
February 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Less than a month until the #WildThings conference in IL! I’ll be there with some merch- what would y’all like to see? (We might try and make some coasters today! Been wanting to add some to my shop forever 😄)
February 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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(Hehe #myradar) 🤭
February 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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navinpokala.bsky.social
Patriotic Federal workers, please try to keep your jobs. Take up a spot that might go to a MAGA. Follow WW2-era CIA advice and use your bureaucratic superpowers to sabotage evildoers. Be maliciously compliant.
January 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Spent all day scraping hairs off a bunch of bees with a pin so I could examine this feature. How was your day? 🙃 #entomology #bees #andrena #beeID
January 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
We highly advised for all federal employees not to respond to or open OPM emails. Our coalition will be advised on additional precautions. Reports of a hostile takeover at OPM have been circulating. More details will be released in the future.
January 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM