It’s been a while since I posted here. But i’m back with a report, and to see if others are suddenly noticing the same: there is BIG TIME censorship happening over on “those other sites” because it just happened to me (to a satire page I had), and someone else I know. Anyone else experiencing it??
Gross.
Thank you so much for the opportunity! 💛🐛🐞🪲
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!
Sheeeeeeeeeit #gotyoass
#bugsky
#insectphotography
#masonbee
This year I hope to get better at IDing them from photos 😍 I have no idea how you do it haha
I ended up finding a bunch more! Only in male bees. So exciting!
LOOK WHAT I FINALLY FOUND! 🤩🥳 #strepsiptera #andrena #goodbeeday
Who wants some good news?
The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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
Spectacular! 😍
A beautiful one to see and hear!
Thank you so much! I agree, I love watching both the males and the females!
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
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.
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...
NOW who’s the one with all the cards, Mr. President??? Mmmm hmmm
😍 love this!
I just heard Sandhill Cranes fly by!!🥹🥹🥹
Thank you!! 🙏
Black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish 😊
Out here at #WildThings2025 !!
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
Happy Birthday Dr. Dre!! 🤗💛
jamelle is correct
Oh yes, thank you. All I get is rage bait political stuff, which was briefly informative but is too draining all the time.
MS in Entomology :)
I had no idea there are different feeds!
I messed up my algorithm over here, I hope finding a lot of my OG IG peeps helps get it back on track!
