Worm Collection

Life Cycle of Silk Worm
The life cycle of a silk worm & silk culture

LAMBTON WORM
The Lambton heir kills the loathsome worm, but is cursed because he fails to kill the first living thing he then meets - his own father!

Nematode worm
This nematode worm specimen has an unsegmented, cylindrical body and is also known as a roundworm

Robins nesting on a bell-shaped Christmas card
Robins nesting in the snow on a bell-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Charles Darwin studying a worm
A satire on Charles Darwin -- after charting the Descent of Man he goes even lower and studies worms

From silkworm to silk stocking - British Empire Exhibition
The silk worm farm in the Hong Kong section at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924

Glenlivet Scotch Whisky distillery 1890
View of the worm tubs, where spirit vapour is condensed, at Andrew Usher & Co, in Edinburgh. Date: 1890

Observation - Picket watching Salmah from the Worm, WW1
The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. Observation - Picket watching Salmah from the Worm, North West corner of Gloucester Wood, Winter 1917-1918

Comic postcard, Bird brings worm to hungry chicks in the nest Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, three humanised ducks - Now then, no treating! Date: early 20th century

The Ravens, the Sexton and the Earth-Worm. A gravedigger stands with a shovel next to a tomb with a stone effigy in a churchyard. A skull and worm in the excavated earth

Sea mice, Aphrodita aculeata and Laetmonice hystrix
Sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata 1 and Laetmonice hystrix 2. Afrodita aculeata, Ermione ispida

Common Glow-worm - female - glowing on a cut grass stalk to attract males - late in the dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica ). meadow in Ural Mountains - Tchelyabinsk region - Russia

Peanut worms, Sipunculus nudus, etc
Peanut worms, Sipunculus nudus 1, Siphonosoma cumanense 4, etc. Sipunculo nudo, Sipunculo microrinco, Sipunculo macrorinco, Sipunculo commestible

The Mother Fish
This illustration shows a mother fish teaching her children about the worm bait on a hook, accompanied with a caption translated from French, The worm, my children, is generally good only so far

THE MOTHER EARTH WORMTO ITS WORMLET: Now, then, Florizel, that just serves you right. How often have I told you to keep away from the wicket during these Test Matches! Date: 1926

Comic postcard, Fish avoids worm and hook Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Ladies in Waiting
The Caption is Ladies in Waiting. This colourful queue is very cheerful. They obviously know that the early bird catches the worm and they are at the top. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1945

Tree sparrow, snow bunting, worm-eating warbler
American tree sparrow, Spizelloides arborea 1, snowflake or snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis 2, worm-eating warbler, Helmitheros vermivorum 3, and magnolia warbler, Setophaga magnolia 4

Pine grosbeak, red crossbill and white-winged crossbill
Pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, male 1, female 2, American crossbill or red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra 3, white-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera 4, males

Jellyfish species
Rhizostoma octopus, Rhizostoma cuvieri, Rizostoma di Cuvier 1, cauliflower jellyfish, Cephea cephea, Cephea guerini, Cefea di Guerin

Fan worm and other worms
Fan worm, Serpula vermicularis 1, polychaete worm, Spirorbis corrugatus 2, tube-building annelid worm, Spirobranchus triqueter 3 and Galeolaria caespitosa 4

Bootlace worm, proboscis worm, ribbon worm
Bootlace worm, Lineus longissimus 1, Borlasia angliae 1, proboscis worm, Cerebratulus bilineatus 2, Cerebratulus bilineatus 2, ribbon worm, Tubulanus polimorphus 3, Tubulanus elegans 4

Two-toed amphiuma and critically endangered axolotl
Two-toed amphiuma, Amphiuma means, Anfiuma means 1, and critically endangered axolotl or Mexican walking fish, Ambystoma mexicanum, Assolotl del Messico 2

Christmas tree worms and feather duster worm
Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus 1 and feather duster worm, Sabella spallanzanii 2, 3. Cymospira gigantea, Anfitrite ventilabro, Anfitrite dello Spallanzani

Nereids
Leodice antennata, Nereidonta antennata 1, and Eunice sanguinea, Nereidonta sanguinea 2

Spiny scale worm and scaleworm
Spiny scale worm, Iphione muricata 1, and scaleworm, Lepidonotus clava 2

Bristle worms or sea mice. Golden fireworm, Chloeia flava 1, and Eurythoe complanata 2. Anfinome flava, Pleione alcyonea

Albany bottlebrush, Callistemon speciosus. (Callistemon speciosum beta, Metrosideros glauca, Metrosidero glauco)

The early bird catches the worm. A cartoon-style duckling proudly holding a fat worm in its beak. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1930

Bootlace worm, Lineus longissimus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804

Copepod parasite on a sprat, Lernaeenicus sprattae
Blood-feeding copepod parasite on a sprats eye, Lernaeenicus sprattae (Lernaea sprattae). And another strange worm found on an oyster shell

Sand worm with crimson feelers, Amphitrite rosea

Polychaete worm, Phyllodoce lamelligera (Nereis lamelligera)

Sea worm, Amphitrite ventilabrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804

Black and white worm lizard, blind snake
Black-and-white worm lizard, Amphisbaena fuliginosa, earthworm blind snake, Typhlops lumbricalis, large shieldtail snake, Pseudotyphlops philippinus (Uropeltis philippinus)

Lizards and skinks
Caecilian, amphisbaenian or worm lizard, grass lizard, blindsnake, false coral snake, European legless lizard, and skinks

Slit worm shell, Tenagodus anguinus (Anguine serpula, Serpula anguina). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Gattyana cirrhosa polychaete worm (Cirrhated aphrodita, Aphrodita cirrhosa). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Black-and-white worm lizard, Amphisbaena fuliginosa, and brown and yellow snake of Surinam (Boa constrictor?)

Coral species
Lettuce coral, Agaricia agaricites, Madrepora agaricites 1, worm holes covered with stony coral 2, Acropora abrotanoides, Madrepora abrotonoides 3, and spherical clump of coral 4

Harvest mouse, Micromys minutus (Mus messorius), with worm. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Earthworm blind snake, slow worm, Cape legless
Earthworm blind snake, Typhlops lumbricalis 1, slow worm, Anguis fragilis 2, Cape legless skink, Ancontias meleagris 3 and eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis 4

Chaetopoda or annelid ringed worms
Chaetopoda annelids or ringed worms: Sabellastarte indica, Hydroides norvegicus, Sabella spallanzanii, Pista cretacea, Eunice magnifica, Hermione hystricella, and Chloeia viridis

Perch, velvet worm, lacewing and pearl oyster
European perch, Perca fluviatilis 1, velvet worm, Peripatus iuliformis 2, lacewing, Perla marginata 3, and pearl oyster, Isognomon isognomum 4. Perche, Peripate, Perle, Perne

Saddleback clownfish and white worm lizard
Amphicoma scullelata 1, saddleback clownfish, Amphiprion polymnus 2 and white worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba 3. Amphiprion laticlavius Amphicome, Amphiprion, Amphisbene

Earthworm, leech, polypes and tapeworms
Earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris 1, medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis 2, polype species, Hydra vulgaris, 3, 4, 5, 6, pork tapeworm, Taenia solium 7, and unknown species of tapeworm

Slow worm, glass lizard and yellowbelly sea snake
Slow worm, Anguis fragilis 1, eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis 2, yellowbelly sea snake, Hydrophis platurus 3, and Anguis variegata 4

Peacock worm, Sabella pavonina, and feather duster worm, Bispira volutacornis

Worm fern, Dryopteris filix-mas (Aspidium filix-mas). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Cabbage worm, longhorn beetle, Rutpela maculata, on a flower

Chinese silk - dyeing and weaving
Chinese silk loom, is shown; the figure seated above among the machinery, appears to assist the labour by means of weight. Date: 1833

Chinese silk - winding from the cocoons
Winding off the silk into singles, but the woman appears for the moment to have left her post for the purpose of blowing the fire. Date: 1833

Chinese silk - cleaning the cocoons
The cocoons being completed by the insect, are being cleared of dirt and dead leaves, before they are removed from the frames. Date: 1833

Chinese silk - feeding the silk worms
Engraving showing the apartment in which the worms are fed and the manner in which the little trays containing the silk worms are arranged. Date: 1833

SLOW WORM
A Slow Worm is superficially like a snake, but is actually a legless lizard, distinguishable because it has eyelids. Date: 1950s

LONG WORM
A tapeworm taken from a patient in Paris by Dr Nicolas ?Antry on 9th June 1698 which measured 4 fathoms long before it broke off! Date: 1698

Bait fisherman, Kent
A fisherman sucks up lug worm bait with a vacuum device on the beach at Dungeness, Kent, England. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Three types of Pipefish and a Seahorse
Three types of Pipefish and a Short-Nosed Seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus)

Common Glow-worm - female - climbed on top of a cut grass stalk in the dusk - attracts males by glowing and waving abdomen from side-to-side - late in the dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica)

Common Glow-worm - female - attracts males by glowing - holds to top of a cut grass stalk - dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica ). meadow in Ural Mountains - Tchelyabinsk region - Russia

Bursa, Turkey - School of Silk Weaving / Silk Worm Farming. Fourth largest city and the first Ottoman Capital. Historically also known Prussa and later Brussa

Taenia solium, pork tapeworm
The pork tapeworm parasite can reach lengths of up to 8 metres. It is found in humans and animals which have consumed meat infected with the larvae

Capillaria philippinensis, parasitic worm
This worm species (Capillaria philippinensis) is a parasite of the human small intestine

Roundworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a parasitic roundworms head (x 1000 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Fish staring at worm on hook on a triangular Christmas card
Three fish staring at a worm on a hook on a triangular Christmas card -- Temptation, designed by Robert Dudley. Date: circa 1880s

Why Not Matches? WWI cartoon by William Heath Robinson
Lights for All: Trapping Glow Worms in Kensington Gardens. A typically ridiculous idea by Heath Robinson for trapping glow worms, thus providing light for Londoners during the black out. Date: 1917

Caterpillars & pupa, Margaret Fountaine
Page 11 from bound volume. Watercolour and ink on paper, 1909 by Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (1862-1940). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1909

Tiger Leech / Painted Leech on a leaf, typical in lowland rainforest of Kinabatangan river floodplain (Haemadipsa picta). Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Ascaris lumbricoides, human roundworm
The human roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) is the largest nematode to parasitize humans, growing up to 16 inches long

Fungia, coral
Fungia is a free-living scleractinian coral

Old Maid card game - Sorry, My Mistake -- a bird thinks the pigs tail is a worm. circa 1950s

Lumbricus lumbricus, Earth worms copulating - Earth worms (Lumbricus lumbricus) copulating. Watercolour by Franz Bauer. Natural History Museum, London - General Library

Happy Families - Mr Flower. circa 1940s

Cooking and heating equipment 1929
Economical equipment for cooking and heating, products for Harrods catalogue building & decorating department. Date: 1929

Endpaper illustration, goslings and signpost
Endpaper illustration, goslings looking up at a signpost which points to market, to the duck pond, and to town. A bird with a worm stands on top looking down at them. Date: circa 1933

Slow-worm or blind worm and eastern glass lizard.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Amphibia, Augsburg, 1794

Surinam amphisboena or tropical worm lizard, Amphisbaena species

White worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Plume worm, Serpula vermicularis.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Ophidonais serpentina worm.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Yellow-haired terebella, Terebella flavicoma.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Horsehair worm, Gordius aquaticus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Frail caecilian, Caecilia gracilis, Typhlops lumbricalis, and red worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba

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