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Insects, hand-colored lithograph, published in 1880

1) Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), 2) European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa), 3) European mantis (Mantis religiosa), 4) Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis), 5) Forest bug (Pentatoma rufipes), 6) Backswimmer (Notonecta glauca), 7) Water scorpion (Nepa cinerea), 8) Cicada orni (Cicadidae), 9) Eoropean scorpion (Euscorpius alpha), 10) Tarantula (Lycosa tarantula), 11) European garden spider (Araneus diadematus). Hand-colored lithograph from my archive, published in 1880

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Greek Art. Archaic Age. 6th century BCE. Bronze tripod foot

Greek Art. Archaic Age. 6th century BCE. Bronze tripod foot with six reliefs depicting: 1-Woman holding a horse by the reins, 2 - Lion and Scorpion, 3 - Odysseus escapes the Cyclops hidden under a ram, 4 - Goat and Bird, 5 - Two faced fighting birds, 6 - Pegasus Gorgon with her son. Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Greece

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

Giant water bug or water scorpion, Lethocerus grandis

Giant water bug or water scorpion, Lethocerus grandis. . Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1799

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

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