Spider Collection (page 5)

English spiders by Eleazar Albin
Watercolour drawing of spiders prepared for A Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects by Eleazar Albin, 1736

Tegenaria gigantia, house spider
Its usually the males which are seen struggling in baths, as they tend to wander in searching for females and get stuck. The males have longer legs and slimmer abdomens that the females

Spider trichobothrium hair
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the base of a trichobothrium hair (x 1, 000). The hair is an air-movement sensor extending from the pit in the cuticle of a spiders leg

Abliguritor niger, fossil spider in amber
This Oligocene spider, about 1 cm long, is encased in amber from the Baltic

Inachus dorsettensis, scorpion spider crab
Photograph of a scorpion spider crab (Inachus dorsettensis)

Willemite
A specimen of willemite (zinc silicate) photographed under UV light

Scientist working in Entomology Department
Entomologist working with arachnid collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Scientist identifying specimens
Entomologist identifying arachnid specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Spider illustration
Drawing 403 from the Watling Collection titled Murraragan by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Fake amber
A fake spider that has been inserted into melted Kauri gum to look like amber. Fig. 16 page no.7 from Amber The Natural Time Capsule

Isle of Wight amber
Spider in Isle of Wight amber. Lower Cretaceous about 130 million years old. Borrowed from Museum of Isle of Wight Geology

Spider and beetles illustration
From the John Reeves Collection of Entomological Drawings (Bound)

Children watching a spider weave its web
A girl and boy watch in wonder as a large spider weaves its web between branches. c. 1910

SPAIN. Bilbao. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Footbridge. Architecture

PERU. ICA. Palpa-Nazca Lines. Ceremonial and ritual geoglyphs (200-700 AD). Detail of spider. Nazca art

Woman of New Caledonia (the spider is edible) Date: circa 1800

Earth spider. Print shows a man with a sword about to fend off an attacking earth spider.. Date 188-

Metalwork design in a circle showing a woman with wings, possibly a religious figure, holding stick and small drum. Date 1878?

The spider and the three silly flies. Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan as a large spider labeled Free Silver with three flies labeled White, Schurz

Perspective picture of Minamoto Raiko battling the giant spider and its demons. Print shows a house haunted by a large demon, a large spider

Raiko Shitenno Minamoto Yorimitsu and the earth spider. Print shows an interior view of room with Minamoto Yorimitsu and another man at a Go gameboard as a demon crashes through the roof

A bird perched on a tree branch with blossoms, watching a spider on a web. Date between 1830 and 1850

Will you walk into my parlor? said the spider to the fly

Spring-Cleaning in the Library
A maid gets distracted by books and newspapers in a library. Date: 1923

Large spider in web
A large spider sits patiently, watching as his web does all the work, reeling in his prey. 1925

Weathervane & Web
Large spiders webs are caught in the sunshine, hanging from a weathervane. Date: 1950s

Russian Berlin Work Pattern with a spider and his web. Date: 1937

JL. Little Miss Muffett
Little Miss Muffet notices the spider... late 19th century

L Wain. Little Miss Muffett
Little Miss Muffet -- a cat version. circa early 20th century

J Hassall. Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet... 20th century

Barbary Spider
The FASCIATA or BARBARY spider in its web with some flies it caught earlier. Date: 1795

Fun with a Spider
Fun with a spider Date: circa 1900

Miss Muffet / Mother Goose
Litle Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey unaware that there is an enormous spider, with a hat, creeping up behind her

Obi-Obi, Australia
Vintage car driving over makeshift Spider Bridge in Obi-Obi, Queensland, Australia

Sempervivum Arachnoideum Laggeri (Houseleek or Liveforever), a succulent alpine and sub-alpine plant of the Crassulaceae family which grows in rosettes

Arachne into a Spider
Arachne is metamorphosed into a spider, because she boasted that her embroidery was better than that of the goddess Athene

A City on Saturn
The spider-like inhabitants of Saturn build their cities in volcanic craters, not only for protection but to benefit from the warm temperatures

The Spider & Silkworm
THE SPIDER & THE SILKWORM A spider boasts she can spin much more quickly than the silkworm; the silkworm replies her labours endure & are valued unlike the spiders web

Cassagnac / Moloch / 1882
PAUL GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC French journalist, politician and noted duellist

Entente - German View
England depicted as a monstrous spider seeking to entrap all western Europe in its web - only the U-boats of Germany defy the monster !

Bird-Eating Spider C1870
A Bird-Eating Spider lives up to its name

Scorpions & Spiders
Various arachnida, including (1) Scorpion, (2) Tarantula, (3) Bird Catcher, (4) Water Spider (aquatic aranea), and (5) Diadem Spider

Miss Muffet (Greenaway)
Sufferers from arachnophobia will sympathise with little miss Muffet who, seeking to enjoy her curds and whey in solitude, finds her picnic gatecrashed by a spider

Little Miss Muffet (Evb)
Most versions have a BIG spider but this has only a little one - yet even so, it is sufficiently threatening to alarm Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet (Anon
A spider dangling from a tree is not a thing I like to see when I am eating curds and whey - and so I think I ll run away !

Bird-Catching Spider
ARANEA AVICULARIA a bird-catching spider

Napoleon I / Fantasy Ptrit
NAPOLEON I A fantasy portrait where he is made up from a black bird, a golden hand, a spider in its web, figures and a map

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