Ant Collection

Thrilling Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Giant Ants
HANDS ACROSS THE VOID - The giant ants of Titan help the Earth travellers against their enemies

Leaf-cutter ants carrying pieces of leaf
Leaf-cutter ants transporting neatly extracted pieces of leaf. These ants derive from the rainforests of Central and South America

Tarzan and the Ant Men
Jacket illustration

Map - The River Ant, Norfolk Broads
Map by M. F. Peck - The River Ant, Norfolk Broads

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

Ant. Saint-Exupery
SAINT-EXUPERY SAINT-EXUPERY French aviator and writer. Author of novels and essays, most with an aviation theme

Cabaret du Neant (Cabaret of Nothingness or Death) - a ghost show cabaret, where ghosts were shown before the amazed audience via optical trickery and special effects

Solignum Wood Preservative and White Ant Destroyer
Advert, Solignum Wood Preservative and White Ant Destroyer

ANTS RETURNING TO NEST
The return of ants after a battle; one carries the body of a dead ant. Date: circa 1870

ANT PULLING ANT
An ant pulling a dead ant. Date: 1960s

Varieties of ants and their nests -- nest of the Fuliginous ant, Formica fuliginosa, Yellow ant (Formica flava), Fallow ant (Formica rufa), nest of the Common Yellow ant

Scarlet mutilla wasp, Mutilla coccinea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815

Red wood ant or southern wood ant, Formica rufa. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842

Giant anteater or ant bear, Myrmecophaga tridactyla. Vulnerable. Myrmecophaga jubata Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques de Seve

Giant ant-eater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla. Vulnerable
Great anteater, giant ant-eater or ant bear, Myrmecophaga tridactyla (M. jubata). Vulnerable. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William

Spider wasps, digger wasp and carpenter ant
Spider wasp, Pepsis atrox 1, digger wasp, Sphex sericeus 2, queen carpenter ant, Camponotus fervidus 3, and African spider wasp, Pepsis severa 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Australian Aboriginal with termite anthills. 19th century

Curtis British Entomology Plate 752
Hymenoptera: Formica rufa (Red, Hill or Horse Ant, or Pismire) Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 265
Hymenoptera: Myrmecina latreillii = Myrmecina graminicola (Isle of Wight Ant) [Plant: Lathyrus sylvestris (Wild Lathyrus)] Date: 1824-39

Johann Ant. Geiger
JOHANN ANTON GEIGER German citizen praised for his piety and knowledge. Date: 1638 - 1685

Spiders, insects and hummingbird on guava tree
Hand-coloured engraving based on Maria Sibylla Merian watercolour. From Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, 1726 edition. Date: 1726

Myrmecodia beccarii, anthouse plant
Finished watercolour by John Frederick Miller from an outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson, made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Hymenoptera specimens
A case containing various Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps and their allies) specimens, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Gigantiops destructor, South American jumping ant
High magnification image made with a scanning electron microscope of the head of a South American jumping ant. Image coloured artificially by a computer

Various Insects C1880
Beetles and flying insects. Date: circa 1880

View from Vanderbilt, 5th Avenue, New York
Located on the corner of 5th avenue and 57th street, New York city, Cornelius Vanderbilt II house was built in 1883. Its ground floor doubled as a drawing room

Jean Ant Et Championnet
JEAN ANTOINE ETIENNE CHAMPIONNET, French general chiefly in Italy, died of wounds while fighting the Austrians. Date: 1762 - 1800

Norfolk / Irstead Church
Norfolk scenery: Irstead Church, on the Ant Date: 1921

Great ant eater or ant bear, Myrmecophaga tridactyla.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Yarrow, Achillea millefolium.. Yarrow, Achillea millefolium. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine de Jussieus Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Ant hill
Black and white lantern Slide of an Ant Hill - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection. Slide number 59 Ant Hill Date: circa 1890s

Acacia Ants - Whistling Thorn and Stinging Ants, on Acacia Gall Plant (Acacia drepanolobiun)

Marie Ant. in Prison
Imprisoned in solitary confinement in the Conciergerie, Paris. Date: circa October 1793

Jean Ant. Rossignol
JEAN ANTOINE ROSSIGNOL French jeweler turned revolutionary, brave but stupid, useless as a soldier so turned to plotting, unsuccessful, condemned and died in exile in Madagascar. Date: 1759 - 1802

Ant. Haudebourt-Lescot
ANTOINETTE CECILE HORTENSE, madame HAUDEBOURT-LESCOT French artist. Date: 1784 - 1845

The Ant Windmill at Ludham, Norfolk Broads. Date: circa 1950s

Flying ant amber
A flying ant preserved in Baltic amber. This specimen dates from the Upper Eocene period

Ant in amber
An ant preserved in Baltic amber. This specimen dates from the Upper Eocene period, 56-34 million years ago

Atta cethalotes, leaf-cutter ant
Scanning electron microscope image of a leaf-cutter ant displayed in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

The Honey Bees Nest in an ant hill
At the Seba que River October 1870. Sketch 53 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Iridomyrmex geinitzi, ants in amber
This specimen is Baltic amber with ants trapped and preserved inside. Ants frequently got caught in the pine resins that were destined to become amber

Lasius niger, black garden ant

Tachyglossus aculeatus, short-nosed echidna
Echidna Native name Bur-roo-gin, Drawing 93 by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797, held at the Natural History Museum

Ants in Dominican amber
Hymenoptera:Aculeata:Formicidae ants in Dominican amber. One is holding the others abdomen with its jaws. Lower Miocene about 20 million years old

Memoirs sur le Termes, 1786

Lasius niger, black garden ant
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) of a black ant leg. Widespread and common in a range of habitats but perhaps most familiar in gardens where nests are formed under paving stones and brickwork

Formica rufa, wood ant
A wood ant specimen on a bright blue background. The wood ant is an active predator and inhabits woodlands and forests

Formica rufa, wood ants
Wood ants massing outside their nest to absorb heat from the spring sunshine

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