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Slightly late for but for Wednesday - a few plates from Volume 4 of 'British entomology being illustrations...', by John Curtis. London: Reeve, 1862.

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2022-06-29

There is little left for comes to an end :)
I don't consider this art and week this year as the best I've ever experienced, but it was good, and the art with the mavericks has its special touch 😊.

I already 3 IW celebrated, & I'm sure there will be more ahead 😄. https://t.co/6jMgLAxPff

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2022-06-27

One of the most wonderful books on insects - Maria Merian's insects of Surinam. Our copy was published in 1726.

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2022-06-25

🔍🐍🕷️This will be amazing! We love to investigate all things animals, insects and minibeasts here in our books at too. 'The Pollinators' and 'Bella Loves Bugs' are fab! https://t.co/CGvDxJYv4k

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2022-06-24

We featured Trichoptera from Curtis earlier in the week but today we focus on Coleoptera in ‘British entomology being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland...’ by John Curtis, 1862. In 16 volumes.

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2022-06-24

Insects in another favourite 'The natural history of British insects, explaining them in their several states... together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope...' by E. Donovan, London: Rivington, 1793-1813 in 16 vols.

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2022-06-22

Engraving including a wasp from Maria Merian's insects of Surinam, 1726. We will share more wasp pictures next week once we are open again & back on site, meanwhile do enjoy the rest of our tweets for

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2022-06-22

is back once again 😄, but... This time things are not as happy as in the previous 2 years for our friends The Mavericks from have invaded this celebration 😨😱(😆)






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2022-06-22

The metaphor appears in many Victorian children's book written by Christian naturalists, such as in Charles Kingsley's "Water Babies", Margaret Gatty's "Parables From Nature", or George MacDonald's "Phantastes"
Read more: https://t.co/4xLY0NouZG

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2022-06-21

To celebrate 20-26 June we are highlighting some of our favourite historic books depicting Here is just a sample to start, more to follow throughout the week🦋🐝🐞

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2022-06-20

A drawing of a meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) as one last post for (although let’s be honest, I’ll never stop chirping on about insects! 🦗😉)

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2021-06-28

Minibeasts and their Habitats - themed curriculum pack for
Insects, spiders and minibeasts feature in this collection of books that will fascinate young garden and nature explorers
https://t.co/LfrUySW1D1

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2021-06-24


The Pyrallis is an insect resembling a large fly with four(!) legs that Pliny wrote lived in copper-smelting furnaces on Cyprus. It draws its lifeforce from the and if it flies out of the flames it instantly dies🔥

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2021-06-24

Peacock & red admiral are today's plates from Rösel von Rosenhof's publication, [1764] 🐛🦋
Interested in butterflies? 16 Jul-8 Aug: https://t.co/c7bCVqG5f1
& https://t.co/Je9ZY1ICJW

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2021-06-24

For we've taken to Instagram to talk about some of our favourite six-legged model organisms with the public. Take a look at our first profile: the original lab insect, Drosophila melanogaster https://t.co/JhflMzIqGn

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2021-06-23

The franchise has become very special and important to me, as well as and the world 😊.

What would be better than making an art for or one for Both at the same time 😁! Adding also, the

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2021-06-23