Insects Collection (page 4)

Large Copper Butterflies Date: 1868

A little bee-eater (Merops pusillus) holding a cicada in its beack, Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana, Africa

Madagascan Hissing Cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa, side view

Lucanus cervus, two male Stag Beetles fighting

Longhorn Beetle (Lamia textor), Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Fly on a cactus in the botanical garden in Valencia, Spain, Europe

Hornet mimic hoverfly. Close-up of a hornet mimic hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) feeding on flowers. This insect is a European species of hoverfly (family Syrphidae). Photographed in Poland

Fire ant
Watercolour 405 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Mong, from the Watling Collection

Sandfly
Sandflies belong to the family Phlebotominae and are responsible of spreading sandfly fever

Astacus astacus Linnaeus, crayfish
Suppl. Tb LVI from Insecten-Belustigung 1756-61, Volume 3 by August Johann R� von Rosenhof (1705-1759)

Examples of mimicry among butterflies
Plate from On the lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Linnean Society, by H.W. Bates, 1862

Urogomphus eximus, fossil dragonfly
A fossil Jurassic dragonfly about 140 million years old, from the Kimmeridgian Lithographic Stone, Solenhofen, Bavaria, Germany

Butterfly studies
A plate from a field note book of Rose Monteiro depicting butterfly studies

Kingfisher
Plate 336, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Crested kingfisher

Ornithoptera alexandrae, Queen Alexandras birdwing butterfly

H. W. Bates illustrated notebook
Plate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Rosa indica (chinensis), China rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33. Illustration entitled Rosier Bengale the hymenee

Study of plants and flowers. Renaissance art. Drawing

Devil Stick Mantis (Idolomantis diabolica) subadult, close-up of head and forelegs (captive)

The Fairies Aeroplane by Muriel Dawson
Two little girls sit in a field of flowers looking at a hovering dragonfly

Bee Hives Near Welwyn
A cyclist stops to admire the many rows of bee hives situated here along the Great North Road near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England

Monarch Butterfly
MONARCH BUTTERFLY (danais archippus)

Butterfly and caterpillar
Mustafa öztürk

Hornet and Wild Rose, 1950 (oil on canvas)
RAV66521 Hornet and Wild Rose, 1950 (oil on canvas) by Ravilious, Tirzah (nee Garwood) (1908-51); 30.5x40.5 cm; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK

A Cricket Ball (engraving)
7177914 A Cricket Ball (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Cricket Ball. Illustration for The Comic Annual by Thomas Hood)

Beautiful Butterflies: A collector at work in New Guinea (colour litho)
6003270 Beautiful Butterflies: A collector at work in New Guinea (colour litho) by Twidle, Arthur (1865-1936); Private Collection; (add.info.: A collector at work in New Guinea)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 304
Lepidoptera: Paucalia woodiella = Euclemensia woodiella (Manchester Tinea) [Plant: Cephalanthera damosonium (Epipactis grandiflora L. or E. pallens Swartz, White Epipactis)] Date: 1824-39

Stag beetle carrying mistletoe in a wintry scene, Christmas greetings card (chromolitho)
6031467 Stag beetle carrying mistletoe in a wintry scene, Christmas greetings card (chromolitho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Venus Verticordia (Venus the changer of hearts) - Oeuvre de Dante Gabriel Rossetti
FIA5401925 Venus Verticordia (Venus the changer of hearts) - Oeuvre de Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), 1868 - Watercolour, Gouache on Paper, 67x59 - Private Collection by Rossetti

Happy Meal
Hasan Baglar

Katydid (Tettigoniidae), captive, Costa Rica, Central America

Dragonfly head C018 / 2394
Dragonfly head. Close-up of the head of a dragonfly (order Odonata), showing its large compound eyes (left and right). Each compound eye is made up of numerous simple eyes called ommatidia

Fulgora laternaria, peanut head bug. How the peanut head bug got its name is self-evident. Its spectacular head is shaped like a peanut and, at six centimetres or so, is almost as long as its body

Specimens collected by Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle 18
A case displaying various beetle specimens collected by Charles Darwin during the Beagle voyage, as well as a map of the ships route

Caterpillar egg
Scanning electron microscope image of a caterpillar egg (x 90), the caterpillar emerges by chewing through the shell (x 350)

Blackfly antenna
Scanning electron microscope image of a blackfly antenna (x 350). These long sensory organs feel and taste objects as well as sensing vibrations and smells (x 1.1K)

Inachis io Linneaus, peacock butterfly
Close up of wing of peacock butterfly from the family Nymphalida. Magnified wing detail from specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 13 from Libellulinae Europaeae by de Charpentier
Illustration of dragonflies. Plate 13 from Libellulinae Europaeae illustrated and described by Toussaint von Charpentier (1780-1847). 1840

Plate 45 from Libellulinae Europaeae by de Charpentier
Illustration of dragonflies. Plate 45 from Libellulinae Europaeae illustrated and described by Toussaint von Charpentier (1780-1847), 1840

Apatura iris, purple emperor
Plate 20 from Illustrations of British Butterflies and their Larvae (1892) by Theo Johnson. Cropped image of illustration

Anopheles gambiae, mosquito
Scanning electron microscope image showing a close-up of the compound eye of a female mosquito (x 2200 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Morpho menelaus, blue morpho
Scanning electron microscope image of the wing scales from the wing of a South American blue morpho butterfly (x 670 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Moth with outstretched wings

Et in arcadia ego (oil on cavas)
XOT362332 Et in arcadia ego (oil on cavas) by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666); 82x91 cm; Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy; Italian, out of copyright

Gall midge in Baltic amber
A gall midge is a fragile mosquito-like fly which produces galls on plants, seen here preserved in Baltic amber. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

A Selection of Museum Specimens
Specimens here include an Entomological tray of insect from the order Orthoptera, a herbarium sheet from Cooks first voyage collected in New South Wales, Australia in 1770 and fish specimens

Chrysolina menthastri, mint leaf beetle eating a mint leaf
A bronze-green rounded leaf beetle feeding on a mint leaf. These beetles are common in the U.K and favour damp waterside habitats

White Butterfly
A black veined White Butterfly (Aporia Crataegi). Date: 1930s

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