Insects Collection (page 57)

Children & Butterflies
Four children in the countryside. A boy shows off his butterfly collection while three girls gather flowers

Insects / Lice
various kinds of louse

Girls Chase Butterflies
Two little girls chase a swarm of butterflies while their younger sister sits among the flowers

Boy and Bee on Knee
A little boy discovers that a bee has landed on his knee

Girl and Butterflies
A little girl in a pink dress holds her doll under her arm as she watches two butterflies

Locust Plague Algeria
Algerian farmers do their best to prevent a locust swarm destroying their crops

Clothes Moth
The clothes moth (tinea pelleonella) and its larvae

Four Nice Moths
White Plumed Moth Linnaeus Glyphipteryx Dark Porcelain Moth Many-Plumed Moth (Really Stunning !)

Moths / Lizars 1880
Brimstone Moth Swallowtail Moth Large Emerald

Musical Cricket, Gnome
The musical performance of a cricket, standing on a mushroom and accompanying himself on the violin, is appreciated by a gnome standing on another

Sick Grasshopper
A sick grasshopper has his pulse taken

Beetle Procession
A procession of beetle clergy

Assorted Arthropods
Arthropoda / arthropods, including a wide variety of insects but also crabs and lobsters who share the feature of articulated feet

Locusts in Bosnia
When a plague of grasshoppers (orthoptera) or locusts (locusta) devastate Bosnian farmlands, the authorities repel them with asphyxiating gas

Bucks Dancing Lesson
The buck gives a dancing lesson to a mixed class of animals and insects

Beetle / Lamia Roylii / Tzs
LAMIA ROYLII

Tarantula in Spain
Spanish tarantulas and their eggs : above is T Hembra (female), below it T Macho (male), together with Obarios (ovaries) and a Capullo (coccoon) housing 3 ovaries

Locust (Colour Print)
locusta sexpunctata (grasshopper of six points)

Unknown Species of Moth
Amateur naturalists depiction of a moth which minutely records the markings found on its brown and grey wings

BEE KEEPER
Bee keeping - examining super frames

Striated Monkey (Bewick)
simia iacchus : Buffon calls it the OUISTITI. It lives in Brazil where it feeds on fruits, vegetables, insects and snails, and is fond of fish

Beehive on a Gatepost
A bee keeper in a suit smokes straggling bees back into their hive with the aid of a pair of small smoking bellows

Bee Pulling a Plough
A bee pulling a plough (from the Serbian myth " The Finest Liar in the World"

Birth of Apiculture
The birth of Apiculture - when heifers are sacrificed, bees swarm from them - a gift from the gods to the pious

Bees in Ice
In Scandinavia, bees are kept in ice throughout the winter, to preserve them

Tending the Bees
A lady bee keeper tending her bees

Driving the Bees
DRIVING THE BEES from the old hive to the new; illustration to The Pleasure and Profits of Bee-Driving

Intoxicated Bees
Beware of bees when they are intoxicated - they become dangerous !

Hives at Gt Exhibition
Neighbours Cottage, Observatory and other hives displayed at the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace

Insects / Beetles / Hercules
Hercules Beetle - Scarabeus (also known as Scarab Beetle)

Insects / Locusts
Iowa farmers light smoke-fires hoping to save their crops from a swarm of locusts

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

Five shrikes perched on a bush -- lanius rufus (1, 2 & 3) and lanius collurio (4 & 5). The shrike is also known as a butcher bird, because it skewers the insects

Locust Swarm in Syria
A locust swarm in Syria

Swarm of Locusts
A locust swarm in Romania

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

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