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Insecta

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Images from the collections

Images about Insecta

190 images from works
  • 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
  • An entomologist at work; represented by a composite man made up of insects. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley, 1830, after G. Spratt.
  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
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Works from the collections

572 works

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

    | Reference: 23631i
    • Books

    Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

    | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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    A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

    | Eleazar Albin | Date: 1736
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP

    | Derric Nimmo & Paul Eggleston
    • Pictures

    Microscopy: parts of a flower [?]. Engraving [after Leewenhoek?].

    | Reference: 46516i
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Related topics

Botany - History
Entomology
Animals
England
Insect Vectors
Flowers
Great Britain
Fruit fly
Model organism
Beneficial insects

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