Stink Collection

Scaredy cat plant -Coleus canina Hybr. -, drives away cats and dogs
Scaredy cat plant -Coleus canina Hybr.-, drives away cats and dogs

Silent Highwayman
Death - The Silent Highway-Man of the polluted River Thames

Striped Skunk - autumn MN309
TOM-1390 Striped Skunk - autumn Minnesota, North America Mephitus mephitus Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Punch cartoon: Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames (engraving)
6034701 Punch cartoon: Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Punch cartoon: Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames)

Sulphur Well at Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales - a spa town, which grew up following the discovery of waters with amazing healing properties in 1732, by the Rev. Theophilus Evans

Autumn is arriving.
Saskia Dingemans

Dirty Father Thames': More an open sewer than a river, the disgusting state of the Thames in London in 1849
527534 Dirty Father Thames': More an open sewer than a river, the disgusting state of the Thames in London in 1849, the year of the Great Stink when Parliament was suspended because of the smell

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 11
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A view of some of the makeshift buildings that have grown among the rubbish tips. This is where the better off Zabballeen people live circa 1995

PPRE2A-00147
Cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt as a muckraker cleaning up the meat scandal. Hand-colored halftone of a 20th-century illustration

London First Sewage System Fleet Streets Street
london, first, sewage, system, fleet, streets, street, sew, 1845, cholera, epidemics, great, stink, miasmas, combined, create, death, rate, higher, forcing, reformers, face, urban, planning, policy

Couple taking in the fresh air at the seaside (colour litho)
5999965 Couple taking in the fresh air at the seaside (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Couple taking in the fresh air at the seaside)

Hog badger, Sunda stink badger and wolverine
Hog badger, Arctonyx collaris 1, Sunda stink badger, Mydaus javanensis 2, and wolverine, Gulo gulo 3. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of

Wolverines, skunk and stink badger
Wolverine, Gulo gulo (Gulo arcticus) 1, Mexico wolverine (Gulo barbara) 2, striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis 3, and Sunda stink badger, Mydaus javanensis 4

Exotic cockroaches and stink bugs
Banana cockroach, Panchlora nivea 1, Central American giant cockroach, Blaberus giganteus 2, Egyptian desert cockroach, Polyphaga aegyptiaca

Exotic bees and wasps
Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica 1, lychee stink bug, Tessaratoma papillosa 2, Leptoscelis balteatus 3, Surinam bee, Euglossa surinamensis 4, long-tailed ophion, Ophion macrurum 5

Asian palm civet, greater grison, and Sunda stink badger
Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus 1, greater grison, Galictis vittata 2, and Sunda stink badger, Mydaus javanensis 3

Stench of people been flushed away. Date: 1853

Brigadier, you are right!! (colour litho)
3656804 Brigadier, you are right!! (colour litho) by Lavrate, Edmond (1829-1888); Private Collection; (add.info.: Brigadier, you are right!)

Punch cartoon: Dirty Father Thames (engraving)
6034634 Punch cartoon: Dirty Father Thames (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dirty Father Thames)

Comedian Norman Wisdom seen here in the persona of hapless on screen character Norman Pitkin in his dressing room in Douglas on the Isle of Man holding a kipper. 28th August 1977

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 10
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 8
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by two donkeys stops in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 9
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig by the leg. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 6
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small girl child dodges past a donkey cart in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 7
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by three small donkeys carries rubbish and three men from the tip Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 5
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. Three young girls sift though the smoking rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 2
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A femae child wearing what might once have been a pretty pink dress. It is now ragged and filthy Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 4
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy carries a tin can into which he will put small metal items he finds among the rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 3
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy scrabbles in the rubbish with his bare hands. More children work behind him Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 1
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A ragged child finds a piece of bread among the rubbish and offers it to her sister, who clings to her brother Date: circa 1995

Filthy streets, Mokattam, Cairo
The filthy street of Mokattam in the middle of the rubbish tips of Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis, and striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France)

Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina), larva

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Wheel Bug, Assassin Bug, Stink Bug, Cueva de los Guacharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Wheel Bug, Assassin Bug, Stink Bug

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stink bug, nymph, orange, Las Tangaras Bird Reserve, Choco, Colombia stink bug, nymph, orange, Las Tngaras Bird Reserve, Choc, Colombia Date:

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Wheel Bug, Assassin Bug, Stink Bug, Cueva de los Guacharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Wheel Bug, Assassin Bug, Stink Bug

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Stink Bug, Cueva de los Guacharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Stink Bug, Cueva de los Gucharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Date:

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Stink Bug, mating, Cueva de los Guacharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Stink Bug, mating, Cueva de los Gucharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Date:

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Stink Bug, Cueva de los Guacharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Stink Bug, Cueva de los Gucharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Date:

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stink bug, nymph, orange, Las Tangaras Bird Reserve, Choco, Colombia stink bug, nymph, orange, Las Tngaras Bird Reserve, Choc, Colombia Date:

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Stink Bug, larva, Cueva de los Guacharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Stink Bug, larva, Cueva de los Gucharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Date:

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Stink Bug, larva, Cueva de los Guacharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Stink Bug, larva, Cueva de los Gucharos National Park / Cave of the Oilbirds, Colombia Date:

The London Bathing Season, filthy River Thames
The London Bathing Season cartoon. The figure of Father Thames, filthy and carrying a dead cat, a bent kettle, and other detritus from the river, beckons to a small boy on the quayside, " Come

Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, WW1
Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, showing a French soldier standing in a hole and holding his nose. He says: They re not dead yet, but they already stink! Date: 1915

Shield Bug / Stink bug - in a dandelion (Pentatomidae sp.). South Tuva, Russia

The Toilet (oil on canvas)
XIR182146 The Toilet (oil on canvas) by Ostade, Adriaen Jansz. van (1610-85); Musee Municipal, Laon, France; Dutch, out of copyright

Cretan Soldier Beetle (Spilostethus saxatilis)

Shield Bug species (Carpocoris purpureipennis), larva, Leptokaria, Greece, Europe

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"Embracing the Stink: From Scaredy Cat Plants to Sulphur Wells and Skunks" Meet the Scaredy Cat Plant - Coleus canina Hybr. This remarkable plant not only adds beauty to your garden but also drives away unwanted visitors like cats and dogs with its pungent odor. In a Punch cartoon from yesteryears, Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames, we see humor in unexpected encounters as even the mighty river is taken aback by an unusual stench. Have you ever heard of a Silent Highwayman? Well, this notorious figure was known for his stealthy approach while robbing unsuspecting travelers on dark roads, leaving behind nothing but a lingering smell of fear. Autumn in Minnesota brings about more than just colorful foliage; it's also the season when Striped Skunks (MN309) make their presence known with their distinct scent that warns potential predators to keep their distance. Journeying to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales takes us back in time where people flocked to experience the healing properties of the Sulphur Well – a natural spring renowned for its foul-smelling yet therapeutic waters. Fleet Street's First Sewage System revolutionized London's sanitation practices, eliminating noxious odors that once plagued this bustling street and improving public health standards for all. The Sunda Stink Badger (Mydaus javanensis) may not win any popularity contests due to its strong odor glands, but these unique creatures play an important role in maintaining ecological balance within their habitat. Zabbaleen of Mokattam in Cairo are resourceful waste collectors who navigate through mountains of garbage daily, enduring unpleasant smells as they strive to recycle and reduce waste impact on their community. Step into history with The Coalition published by G.