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Honeybee

Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.

Axons in living embryo, confocal image.

The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...

Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783.

A female scorpion being led into a burrow by her mate. Reproduction of a photograph by P. H. Fabre.

Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.

Head of a honeybee

A chickweed plant (Cerastium quaternellum) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

An entomologist at work; represented by a composite man made up of insects. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley, 1830, after G. Spratt.

A cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea) with an associated moth or butterfly and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Wild garlic plant (Allium ursinum) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

Relation of the most miraculous swarms of flies : that were seen flying in innumerable bodies through London, and dropping in great heaps like showers of rain, and appearing as white as snow on the ground, on Saturday the 19th of July, to the great admiration of thousands of people, who stood to admire their vast numbers in several parts both of city, the suburbs, and in Southwark: with the opinions of most learned persons concerning this surprizing prodigy. Licensed according to order.

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP

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Insecta

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A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP

Insecta

Images from the collections

Images referencing Insecta

Works from the collections

A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP

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