Bee Collection (page 4)

Bee ophrys or bee orchis, Ophrys apifera.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Blue-headed bee-eater, Merops muelleri.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

European bee-eater, Merops apiaster.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Bee-eater, Merops apiaster.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Bee orchid, Ophrys apifera.. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Beehives in the Holy Land. Date: 1920s

Beekeeping Lantern Slide series
Beekeeping-related black and white lantern slide - section of a brood comb. Part of Box 342, bees and beekeeping, slide number 5 Date: circa 1900

Straw Bee Hives, 1733
Straw bee hives outside the Colonel John Ashley House, dating from 1733, Massachusetts

Wooden Propeller manufactured by Frederick Tibbenham of Ipswich (the companys transfer sign of a bumble bee was used on every propeller that the company made)

Language of flowers 1918
Women flowers flirting with bees and butterflies. Date: 1918

Chocolate box design, birds and bees
Chocolate box design, featuring birds, bees and pink flowers. Date: 20th century

Cinematography trophies on display
Various trophies on display. The notice reads: Modern Bee Breeding, but the large trophy at the centre is for Amateur Cinematography

Mae Murray & Ship 1930S
MAE MURRAY American star of many silent films, including The Merry Widow (1925), known as the girl with bee-stung lips, here with a model ship. Date: 1889 - 1965

The Bee on Trianglen in Copenhagen, Denmark
The Bee (a tramway waiting room!) on Trianglen a central junction and public space in the Osterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark Date: 1931

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Gardo House, Eagle Gate and the Lion and Bee Hive Houses Date: circa 1901

Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot decorated with a beehive and pink flowers. Date: circa 1890s

Dog with tambourine on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The hydrogen balloon Bee inflated ready for ascending at Knowless Oxygen Works at Wolverhampton

Griffith Brewer and Alec Ogilvie in the basket of 1, 800cu ft hydrogen balloon Bee standing in the airship shed at Etterbeck, Brussels, before ascending on 27 July 1912

The front cover of The Bee Hive, August 1941, 16, (8). Date: 1941

Jacqueline Cochran (1906-1980) and Wesley Smith
Jacqueline Cochran, 1906-1980, and Wesley Smith alongside their Gee Bee QED in the 1934 MacRobertson Trophy Air Race. Date: 1906

The front cover of The Bee Hive volume IX
The front cover of The Bee Hive, volume IX, Number 1, January 1935, published by the United Aircraft Corporation for the employees of its subsidiaries. Date: 1935

A Wee Bee homebuilt under the Convair XC-99

Apis mellifera, European honey bee
Photograph of a European honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the wildlife garden. A typical small hive contains about 20, 000 bees which are divided into three types; Queen, Drones, and Workers

Bombus pascorum, common carder bee
A female Bombus pascorum, common carder bee visiting a plant in the wildlife garden

Two birds on title page, waiting for crumbs
Heart-shaped enamel on metal badge made by Ernestine Mills (1871-1959), possibly for the W.S.P.Us Womens Exhibition of 1909

Hyperechia nigripennis, robber fly
A robber fly, an African predatory fly with a carpenter bee (Xylocopa) that it mimics. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Collection of mixed dead birds
Plate 65, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Copal with honey bee
A piece of East African copal with a honey bee, Apis mellifera preserved inside it. Specimen is less than 2 million years old

Orchid bee in copal
Orchid bee in Colombian copal (a younger stage of amber). Probabaly less than 2 million years old. Donated by Miguel Caycedo

Merops apiaster, European bee-eater
Plate 144 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Drawings 43-46 from the Watling Collection
43. A native fishing. 44. Comoo bee ornamented after a burial. 45. Ablaroo, a moobee after Balloderreeo funeral. 46. native of New South Wales

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)

Honeycomb of Apis sp. honeybee
A close-up of the structure of a the honeycomb made by a colony of honeybees

Anthophorites titania, fossil bee
A well preserved specimen of the body of a bee. Legs and abdomen can clearly be seen

Merops leschenaulti, chestnut-headed bee-eater
Plate 33, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Collection of birds feathers
Plate 25 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Wild honey comb
Plate 42 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Bee in Dominican amber
A bee, Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Apidae trapped in Dominican amber. This specimen was used to attempt DNA extraction

Bombus sp. bumble bee
Side-view mid-flight photograph of a bumble bee, photograph taken in the U.K

Bombyliidae specimens
Bee-flies from around the world, clockwise from top left: Systropus, Bombylius, Cephalopdromia and Ligyra. Adults are flower feeders, the larvae are parasitoids of other insects

Bombus hypnorum, bumblebee
A bumblebee perched on Lythrum salicaria, purple loosetrife, in the Natural History Museums Wildlife Garden

Pollen on bee
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of pollen on a bee. If the plant depends on animals for pollination, the pollen will be relatively large and sticky

Varroa jacobsoni, honey bee mite

Apis mellifera, honey bee
Scanning electron microscope image of a honey bee coloured artificially by computer. The female worker caste of this species have special baskets on their legs to to take pollen back to the nest

Honeybee visiting a flower
A working honeybee visiting a flower and collecting pollen

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