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Beekeeping

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Insect rearing

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Images from the collections

Images about Beekeeping

5 images from works
  • A beekeeper attempting to keep lizards away from his hives; a hand emerging from the clouds. Woodcut, 1502.
  • Varroa destructor, honey bee mite, SEM
  • The honey-bee; its natural history, physiology and management / By Edward Bevan.
  • The honey-bee; its natural history, physiology and management / By Edward Bevan.
  • Apiculture: an advertising flyer for a patent beehive. Engraving after Knight & Thompson.

Works from the collections

57 works

    • Ephemera

    Yesterday a hive of bees swarm'd at a tradesman's house in Kentish town...

    | Date: [1763]
    • Ephemera

    The bee : the bee doth extract out the sweets... / Louisa Broughton.

    | Date: [1774]
    • Books

    Tēṉī vaḷarttalum teḷḷaṟivuṟuttalum / P. Cēṉaiyaṉ.

    Cēṉaiyaṉ, P. | Date: 1939
    • Ephemera

    Observations on bees / The Saturday Magazine.

    | Date: 1843
    • Books

    A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard ... With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use ... As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty and eight years of labour; and now the sixth time corrected, and much enlarged, / By William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation.

    William Lawson | Date: 1676
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Bees
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