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Animals and Their Homes
Beekeeping 1960SA beekeeper wearing protective gloves, jacket, hat and veil removes the Queen Excluder grid from the Brood Box
Cartoon, William Gladstone asleep, with insect MPs hovering over his face -- How the Grand Old Man manages to take forty winks with a lot of pestiferous flies buzzing about him is a wonder! 1884
Hiving a Swarm of Bees - a man in a field is holding a basket beehive under a clump of bees. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s
Man with an insect on his nose on a novelty postcard. Date: circa 1900s
Happy Familes Playing Cards - Master Flower. circa 1935
Greetings Card - You re a Honey ! 20th century
Pink and white flowers on a Christmas cardPink and white flowers with bee on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Insects riding on a frog on a Christmas cardTwo insects (a bee and a dragonfly) riding on the back of a frog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Spray of leaves and a bee on a Christmas cardSpray of red, blue and green leaves and a bee on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
White flower and a bee on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Fairy with flowers and bees on a greetings cardFairy with honeysuckle and bees on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s
AristomachusARISTOMACHUS Greek writer of Solos, who observed, loved and wrote about bees : no one seems to know exactly when he lived Date: BC
Lavender and a bee on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Bee and pink rose on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Cartoon, Broad Bottom Drones storming the Hive, Wasps, Hornets & Bumble Bees joining in the Attack, by James Gillray. Showing leading politicians (both those in power and those in opposition)
Beehives in the Holy Land. Date: 1920s
Beekeeping Lantern Slide seriesBeekeeping-related black and white lantern slide - section of a brood comb. Part of Box 342, bees and beekeeping, slide number 5 Date: circa 1900
Language of flowers 1918Women flowers flirting with bees and butterflies. Date: 1918
Chocolate box design, birds and beesChocolate box design, featuring birds, bees and pink flowers. Date: 20th century
James LapslieJAMES LAPSLIE Scottish churchman and informer, reading a book about bees which swarm round his head, standing on the book of Revelation. Date: CIRCA 1793
Robert HuishROBERT HUISH Writer, about bees among other things. Date: 1777 - 1850
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
Beehives, queen bees, and worker bees. Illustration from Gilles August Bazin, The natural history of bees. Date: 1744
Edward Baruch Blaker, beekeeper, 1911 (1) Date: 1911
BeekeepingHans Hermigk, About Beekeeping, Denmark. 1649. Date: 1649
HONEYCOMBA close-up photograph of honeycomb. Date: 1979
Beehive and BeesBees buzzing round a hive. Date: 1817
Cottagers HivesA cottager tends his hives, while his children keep a safe distance... Date: 1881
Brazilian BeeThe Brazilian bee. Date: 1901
Diderot HivesVarious hives and other apicultural appliances Date: circa 1760
Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, IndustryIndustry. A hard working man sits busily stitching fabrics and casts a shadow of a bee hive. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled
Anon. Warne alphabet 1875. WXYZPage from a 19th century alphabet book with W and X, inexplicably, for bees, honey and hives (?), Y for yacht (thats better, back on familiar territory) and Z for the good old zebra
St Bees College, CumbriaGeneral view of St Bees College, Cumbria, a theological college which opened in 1817, admitting 20 students who paid five pounds per term
Bees swarming in a walled gardenBees leave their hive and form a large swarm on the branch of a tree. Two agricultural types look on in amazement
Lear / Nonsense / DoverThere was an Old Person of Dover, who rushed through a field of blue Clover; But some very large bees, stung his nose and his knees, so he very soon went back to Dover
An Air AttackA delicate lady, accompanied by her boy servant, fends off a small swarm of bees with an equally small parasol
Bees by Charles Robinson, 1912A group of bees clamber to the end of a tree branch, where one appears to be challenging the others to a sword duel
Dr Syntax / Bees / 2nd TourBEES Dr Syntax and the bees
A City on MercuryThe inhabitants of Mercury are insectoid, and their techno- -logy is a superior form of that used by ants and bees on Earth : quartz crystals are used to build their cities
The Bear and the BeesTHE BEAR AND THE BEES The bear is stung by a bee and in retaliation overturns the hive whereupon hundreds of bees attack and sting him
Fable / the Two BeesTwo bees, one wise and temperate, the other careless and extravagant, arrive in a garden; one makes provision against the distant winter, the other gorges itself
Cyrene and ProteusThe water-nymph Cyrene threatens Proteus, who has taken the form of a beast, so he resumes his normal shape and reveals why her son Aristaeuss bees are sick
Various BeesVarious types of bee
Beehive Scene 1902Humanised bees in a hive
Girl with Flowers & BeesA little girl carrying a parcel of flowers is surrounded by bees
BEE KEEPERBee keeping - examining super frames