Wasp Collection

Royal Navy helicopters photographed off Portland. From top: Westland Sea King, Westland Wessex HAS1, Westland Wessex HU5, Westland Wessex HAS1, Westland Lynx, Westland Wasp HAS1 and Westlad Gazelle

Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radials

Bonzos Latest: This Weeks Studdy
Famous dog, just after he had finally been christened with the name Bonzo. He appears with a swollen eye after fighting with a wasp

Wolseley Wasp
The Wolseley Wasp is a 10 hp family car : the de luxe saloon will set you back only L178 and ten shillings. Date: 1936

Catalina Flying Boat Catalina Flying Boat
Catalina Flying Boat - American consolidated flying boat. Two 1, 200 H.P. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Engines. Range 4, 000 miles. Depicted sighting the Bismarck. Date: circa 1940s

Two frogs with insect on a greetings card
Two frogs with an insect on a greetings card -- Happy be thy dreams. Date: circa 1890s

Dog and British Wasp
Dog (Germany) with the British Navy on its tail : I should like to wag it about but I think I d better keep it still... Date: circa 1914

Spanish fly, wasp beetle and long-horn beetles
Spanish fly beetle, Lytta vesicatoria 1, wasp beetle, Clytus arietis 2, Altica equinoctialis 3, Clytra quadripunctata 4, longhorn beetles, Chlorida festiva 5 and Trachyderes succinctus 6

Seversky SEV-S2 NX70Y (msn 43). Alexander de Seversky modified a P-35 for the National Air Races. Powered by a 950hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp Sc

Fleet Air Arm - Grumman Martlet V - JV337
A General Motors Martlet V of the Fleet Air Arm. the Martlet was soon to be re-named Wildcat (as per US Navy). the Martlet V was equivalent to the US Navy General Motors FM-1 (Grumman F4F-4)

Transland Ag-2 N8330H and N8831H
Transland Ag-2 N8830H and N8831H, 1st and 2nd prototypes. For some years after World War II the Transland Aircraft Company of Torrance, California, a division of Hi Shear Rivet Tool Co

Transland Ag-2 N8330H, the first prototype in flight. For some years after World War II the Transland Aircraft Company of Torrance, California, a division of Hi Shear Rivet Tool Co

The Wasp Sting
Reproduction of a painting by Margaret Mower White. Date: circa 1930

Westland AH-12A Wasp 236
Koninklijke Marine - Westland AH-12A Wasp 236 (msn F.9681), at RAF Greenham Common on 24 July 1977. (Koninklijke Marine - Royal Netherlands Navy). Date: 1977

Attack on Sidon by Commodore Charles Napier, 26 September 1840. British, Turkish and Austrian ships bombarding Egyptian positions in the Lebanese port of Sidon during the Syrian War

Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp
Curtiss XP-3A No.2 28-189 (msn 10993), fitted with a 410hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-1 Wasp, in a close fitting NACA cowling

Westland Wasp HAS. 1 XT435
Royal Navy - Westland Wasp HAS.1 XT435 503 of 829 Naval Air Squadron, with Wessex HAS.3 XS868 and a Batmobile, circa 1966. Date: circa 1966

Battle of the Wasp and Frolic
The capture of brig HMS Frolic of twenty guns by the sloop of American ship USS Wasp. Date: 1812

Westland Wasp HAS. 1 G-RIMM - XT435
Westland Wasp HAS.1 G-RIMM - XT435 (msn F.9605), at North Weald airfield on 25 April 2010, in the markings of HMS Achilles ship's helicopter call-sign 430'. Date: 2010

Comic postcard, Chauffeur buying petrol Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Dog with a wasp on its tail Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl up a tree Date: 20th century

Wreck of HMS Wasp, British gun-boat, at Tory Island, Donegal, north coast of Ireland, 1884

Dogbane beetle, banksia jewel beetle, etc
Dogbane beetle, Chrysochus auratus 1, Hoplia argentea 2, banksia jewel beetle, Cyrioides imperialis 3, Eumolpus fulgidus 4, and Eumolpus surinamensis 5

A wasp threatens to settle on my nose - The Water Cure
Just as the doctor has fixed me in my arm and leg bath, a wasp threatens to settle on my nose - The Water Cure. 1870

Norwegian wasp, Dolichovespula norwegica (British wasp, Vespa britannica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological

Scarlet mutilla wasp, Mutilla coccinea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815

Hairy sandwasp, Podalonia hirsuta (Ammophila hirsuta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Species of wasps
Great banded wasp, Vespa tropica (Vespa cincta) 1, solitary wasp, Eumenes flavopictus 2, Stizus speciosus 3, and Chlorion lobatum 4

Tree wasp, Dolichovespula sylvestris (Campanular wasp, Vespa campanaria). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Gannet, coot, seaweed and wasp
Northern gannet, Morus bassanus 4, red-fronted coot, Fulica rufifrons 5, Flustra foliacea seaweed 1, 2, and Gasteruption wasp 3. Flustre, foene, fou, foulque

Black-cheeked gnateater, handsome sweetpea and wasp
Black-cheeked gnateater, Conopophaga melanops, handsome sweetpea, Platylobium formosum, and Inostemma boscii wasp. Platygastra, Platylobier et Platyrhinque

Sea pen, spider wasp and long-nosed bandicoot
Sea pen, Pennatula phosphorea 1, spider wasp, Pepsis limbata 2, and long-nosed bandicoot, Perameles nasuta 3. Pennatule, pepsis, peramele

Stag beetle, molluscs and wasp
Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus 1, Cerithium sulcatum and Rhinoclavis aspera molluscs 3, 4, Cerocoma elateroides 5 and Keroplatus tipuloides wasp 6. Cerf-volant, cerithe, cerocome, ceroplate

Paper wasp and nest, weevils and sea slugs on seaweed
Polistes gallicus, paper wasp and nest, blue weevil, Eupholus schoenherri, root weevil, Diaprepes abbreviatus, Polycera sea slugs, Ancula gibbosa, Atlantic ancula, on seaweed

Goliath stick insect, fly, bee-killer wasp and bark bug
Goliath stick insect, Eurycnema goliath, fly, Phasia species, bee-killer wasp, Philanthus triangulum, bark bug, Phloea corticata. Phasie, Phasme, Philanthe, Phlaea

Spider wasp, pickerelweed and watchman prawn
Black-banded spider wasp, Anoplius viaticus 1, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata 2, and watchman prawn, Anchistus custos 3. Pompile, Pontederie, Pontonie

Geraniums and wasp
Geranium species, Pelargonium daveyanum 1 and Pelargonium macranthon 2. and wasp species, Ichneumon polycertor 3. Pelargonium, pelecine

Damselfly, carpenter bee and potter wasp
Helicopter damselfly, Mecistogaster lucretia 1, tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes 2, and potter wasp, Synagris cornuta, male 3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Exotic crickets and wasps
Eneoptera surinamensis cricket 1, bedbug species, Cimex corticatus 2, mammoth wasp, Megascolia maculata flavifrons? 3, and Pelecinus polyturator wasp 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Exotic hornets, wasps and bees
Oriental hornet, Vespa orientalis 1, scarab hunter wasp, Campsomeris quadrimaculata 2, hairy footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes 3, steel-blue wasp, Chalybion caeruleum 4, preying mantis

Exotic cicadas and wasps
Speckled black cicada, Gaeana maculata 1, Platypleura capensis 2, Lystra lanata 3, Andrena thoracica 4, Acrotelsa collaris 5, hoverfly, Milesia virginiensis 6, and paper wasp, polistes annularis 7

Flies, wasps and dauber
Mydas fly, Mydas clavatus 1, horsefly, Tabanus americanus 2, 3, digger wasp, Sphex jamaicensis 4, scoliid wasp, Scolia fossulana 5, and black and yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron caementarium imago 6

Exotic bees and wasps
Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica 1, lychee stink bug, Tessaratoma papillosa 2, Leptoscelis balteatus 3, Surinam bee, Euglossa surinamensis 4, long-tailed ophion, Ophion macrurum 5

Spider wasps, digger wasp and carpenter ant
Spider wasp, Pepsis atrox 1, digger wasp, Sphex sericeus 2, queen carpenter ant, Camponotus fervidus 3, and African spider wasp, Pepsis severa 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Shooting star, Dodecatheon meadia
La Mead. Shooting star, Dodecatheon meadia. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

Aleppo oak, Quercus infectoria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Oak eggar moth on heather
Oak eggar moth, Lasiocampa quercus, long bastard wasp, on heather, Calluna vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

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