Worm Collection (page 3)

Chocolate box design, bird with nest of eggs
Chocolate box design, featuring a bird at various stages, with a nest of eggs, then bringing a worm for three hatched chicks. Date: 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations. A man in a room full of mice reaches for a plate of meat on a shelf. A bridegroom wheels his bride along the road in a wheelbarrow. A frog eats a worm

POLECAT
(mustela putorious) This lucky European Polecat has just caught a lovely fat worm. Date: circa 1860

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms awake from hibernation
Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms during second hibernation phase. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms begin to construct cocoons Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Bombyx mori Moths lay eggs on paper Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Reeling the cocoons by foot reel Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Cutting the Mulberry leaves, for the silkworms to consume as they grow to maturity. Date: circa 1907

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms 20 days after hatching Date: circa 1907

Japanese Silk Industry - Cleaning silk worm beds. Date: circa 1910

Young boy admonished for fishin on the Sabbath
Clergyman - " My Boy, do you know its wicked to fish on the Sabbath?" Youngster - " I isn t fishing; I m teachin this ere wurm ter swim." Date: 1895

Worm Farm - Japan - Straw Layers in which the worms are kept. Date: circa 1910s

Small self-acting machine for cutting wheels
Small self-acting machine for cutting spur, bevil and worm wheels

Shipworm borings
This block of wood was attacked by Teredo navalis, common shipworm about 50 million years ago

Hallucigenia sparsa, velvet worm
A velvet worm fossil from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Paragonimus sp. parasitic worm
Human lung fluke, a parasitic worm. Common in South East Asia, in 1980 there were thought to be 3 million people infected

Parasitic worms in spirit jars. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dioctophyme renale, giant kidney worm
Photograph of a giant kidney worm (Dioctophyma renale)

Scientist working with parasitic worms
Museum scientist working with parasitic worms in a zoology laboratory

Halipegus hessleri, parasitic worm
A parasitic worm specimen measuring 3.3mm

Ottoia prolifica, priapulid worm
A priapulid worm fossil from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Trichinella spiralis, parasitic roundworm
This parasitic, nematode roundworm (Trichinella spiralis) infects a wide variety of mammals, including man

Arenicola loveni, polychaete worm
Illustration from Catalogue of the Chaetopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Polychaeta (1912). Illustration on display in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Boulengerula taitanus, taita caecilian tooth
Tooth of the young specialized for peeling mothers skin

Phosphaenus hemipterus, glow worm
Photograph of a glow worm (Phosphaenus hemipterus)

Lumbricus terrestris, earthworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing the chaeta/setae - involved in the locomotion on an earthworm

Polychaete worm
An annelid worm of the class Polychaeta

Monochus aquaticus, nematode
A magnified image of the nematode worm (Monochus aquaticus)

Roundworm in Baltic amber
A roundworm (nematode) trapped in Baltic amber. Specimen is from the Upper Eocene about 35 million years old. Donated by Arne Urup

Rotularia bognori, tube of polychaete worm
A tube cast of the polychaete worm (Rotularia bognori). Specimen originates from Bognor, England

Collecting nematode worms
A scientist on field research collecting nematode worms

The silk worm. Illustration shows a beautiful young woman reclining on cushions and holding on the tips of her fingers a diminutive man

The book worm and her favorite book. Illustration shows a young woman sitting at a table with many books, but she is reading Fashion Focus, a womens fashion magazine. Date 1914 May 16

Cartoon - WWI Food Substitute Satire
Mummy duck says to baby duckling (closely examining a horseshoe): " Don t touch it dear, its a worm subsititute!" Date: circa 1915

Waitomo Glow-Worm Caves
Why on earth are these fashionable young women putting on such ugly boots? So they can enter Waitomo Glow- worm Caves, New Zealand, silly! Date: 1940s

Stages of the Silkworm
Various stages of the lifecycle of the silkworm from the grub to the silk cocoon. Date: Circa 1760

Feeding silk worms

Getting Ready for a Formal Evening, 1928
Illustration showing a fashionable young woman getting ready, with the help of her maid, for a formal evening event as her more mature escort waits patiently on a sofa

SLOW-WORM
A Slow-worm

Branched Worm 1891
Heskaterobranchus Shrubsolii

Cock Robin 3
The Owl digs the grave in which the corpse of the late bird (as opposed to the early bird which catches the worm) will be laid

Marine Life / Annelides
Annelides (a type of marine worm) on the sea bed

Variety of Sea Shells
A variety of sea shells including razor clams and other bivalves and worm casts

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