Stinging Collection

Plants / Urtica Dioica
Common Nettle or Stinging Nettle

Comic postcard, Primitive couple in fig leaves Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man, boy and starfish on the beach Date: 20th century

Naked-eye medusa and hydrozoan jellyfish
Naked-eye medusa, Orythia viridis, Oritia verde 1, and hydrozoans, Geryonia proboscidalis, Dianea gabert 2, and Liriope tetraphylla, Gerionia tetrafilla 3

Jellyfish and stinging jellyfish species
Jellyfish species. Favonia octonema 1, Lymnorea triedra 2, and stinging jellyfish, Cyanea labiche 3. Favonia ottonema, Limnorea triedra, Cianea Labiche

Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, and hemp nettle, Galeopsis speciosa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Common tailorbird, stinging nettle and aardvark
Common tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius with nest, stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, and aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Emigration - Infested by Mosquitoes. 19th century

Man with an insect on his nose on a novelty postcard. Date: circa 1900s

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)

Illustration, Nymphalidae -- Vanessa Xanthomelas, Vanessa C-album, Vanessa Cardui, Vanessa Levana (variety Prorsa). The plants are Spear Thistle (Cirsium Lanceolatum)

Stinging nettle, Urtica arvens.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Laportea moroides, stinging nettle native to Queensland, Australia.. Hand-coloured botanical illustration drawn by Matilda Smith and lithographed by E

Acacia Ants - Whistling Thorn and Stinging Ants, on Acacia Gall Plant (Acacia drepanolobiun)

Urtica foliis, nettles
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Stinging power. Print shows a dragon fly and bumble bees tormenting a small elephant. Date 1895

Little Idas Flowers
The botanical professor sees a stinging nettle making signs with its leaves to a red carnation. Date: 1932

The Bear and the Bees
THE 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

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