Insect Collection (page 62)

Folklore / Insects
CROSSEs ACARI Insect which Crosse believed he had created spontaneously and inadvertently in the course of electro-chemical experiments Date: 1837

A celebrity stands for a portrait
Bonzo, the famous canine cartoon character created by artist George Studdy in the 1920s poses for his photograph, unaware of a predetory wasp hovering above

The Hornet
Fancy dress costume suggestion for 1884. Why not go as a hornet. All you need is a short black dress, black satin boots, a tunic pointed front and back of black

Dragonfly (Aeshna Cyanea) emerged from exuvia
A close-up view of a Dragonfly (Aeshna Cyanea, Southern Hawker) which has just emerged from its exoskeleton or exuvia

Cover design for The Butterflies Ball
Music cover design for The Butterflies Ball, Air de Ballet, by Clifford Higgin, published by Cary & Co of London. An elegant butterfly couple are depicted, hand in hand

Greetings from Malta
A Greetings card from Malta, depicting a glamorous woman as the carapace of a beautiful butterfly, the wings extended wide to reveal scenes of places on the Island

Britannia as a patriotic Butterfly - WWI
A World War One era postcard from a French series Les Allies - Britannia depicted as a patriotic butterfly, with red ensign wings

Earwig, also showing its eggs and newly-hatched young

On the Nose! - a mosquito hits the jackpot when encountering a fine hooter

Sport / Cricket / Spofforth
F.R.SPOFFORTH The Demon or imp-etuous bowler, representing cricket on T other side of the Hearth

Life on the Stars
On Vega, giant star of the Lyra (harp) constellation, life could take the form of insect- like creatures, here depicted carrying a visiting traveler from Earth

Camellia & Insect
Oriental style depiction of a pink peony-form camellia showing the branch, leaves, bud and fully opened flower plus a strange black insect

Man and Beetle
Man meets insect, but it isn t clear whether he is about to pick it up or is trying to prevent it attacking him : the bird in the tree, on the other hand, would like it for lunch

Churchill / Randolph / Fly
British MP Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill as a pesky insect which bites at night, but no-one feels its sting, and which is " all hum"

Bird and Insect
A bird and an insect in a domestic situation

Chameleons in Foliage
Four chameleons in the branches of a tree, one shooting out an incredibly long tongue to catch an insect

Darwin / Ancestor Cartoon
CHARLES DARWIN English naturalist Cartoon of the Darwinian ancestor; " For O it is such a Norrible Tail!"

Lucanus Dux beetle
A lucanus dux beetle (centre) and other members of the lucanus family

Tsetse Fly
GLOSSINA MORSITANS, Tsetse Fly. This insect is a great plague to cattle in equatorial Africa

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