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#Moths and more! #SciArt of "Transformations of South African #Lepidoptera" by J.M. Fawcett for the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 17 (1903-1906). View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @SILibraries for digitizing: https://t.co/ERrIF0DC7S
A long-eared #hedgehog 🦔 (Hemiechinus auritus albulus) with some serious side-eye for Horsfield's #shrew (Crocidura horsfieldi) snacking on a delicious worm. #SciArt from Second Yarkand Mission, Part 4: Mammalia (1879), via @BioDivLibrary & @SILibraries: https://t.co/Ne8Urb6Des
#Moths, #caterpillars, and #cocoons! #SciArt from Le Monde des Papillons (1867) by Alphonse Depuiset. View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to the Library of the Musée Cantonal de Zoologie - Lausanne for digitizing: https://t.co/Jln8G8XNcn 🐛
🌷 Happy #FloraFriday! 🌷 Desert #tulips (Tulipa systola) 🌷 are native to the arid conditions of the Middle East. #SciArt by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 117 (1891). View in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @mobotgarden for digitizing: https://t.co/m7raUMdzS0
🌺 Tropical hibiscus 🌺 (#Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) for this #BotanicMonday! #SciArt by Sarah Ann Drake for Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol. 21 (1836). View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to the @mobotgarden for digitizing: https://t.co/vzZz9xPkFi
Boat #orchids (Cymbidium lowianum). #SciArt by Alphonse Goossens for Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees: Cymbidium (1896-1907) by Alfred Cogniaux. View more in the @biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Raven Library of the @mobotgarden for digitizing: https://t.co/PJc3pXP6fz
Pears 🍐🍐 (Pyrus communis), variety "Gute Graue". #SciArt by Walter Müller for Äpfel und Birnen (1894) by Rudolph Goethe, H. Degenkolb, and R. Mertens. View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @Cornell_Library for digitizing: https://t.co/2YntGWrrFn
@FlamingoSpecGrp @IUCN @IUCNRedList @IUCNssc @WWTworldwide Thought you might enjoy some lovely #flamingo #SciArt for #InternationalFlamingoDay🦩! All illustrations are found in @BioDivLibrary in their @Flickr account, which links to publications referring to these marvelous #PinkBirds. https://t.co/duC0MLSZvs
🦩It's #InternationalFlamingoDay🦩! American #flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) #SciArt by Édouard Traviès for Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de #Cuba, T.8 (1855) by Ramón de la Sagra, via @BioDivLibrary and @MoBotGarden: https://t.co/9UwcQ4mynN
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Happy #Feathursday! Princess #parrots (Polytelis alexandrae) are Australian natives, who can lived up to 30 years. #SciArt from John Gould's #Birds of #Australia, Supplement (1869). View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @SILibraries for digitizing: https://t.co/mFfBPQ4Yyi