Members of the phylum ARTHROPODA composed or organisms characterized by division into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. They are the dominant group of animals on earth with several hundred thousand different kinds. Three orders, HEMIPTERA; DIPTERA; and SIPHONAPTERA; are of medical interest in that they cause disease in humans and animals. (From Borror et al., An Introduction to the Study of Insects, 4th ed, p1).
    

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Honeybee

Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.

Axons in living embryo, confocal image.

The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...

Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783.

A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

Relation of the most miraculous swarms of flies : that were seen flying in innumerable bodies through London, and dropping in great heaps like showers of rain, and appearing as white as snow on the ground, on Saturday the 19th of July, to the great admiration of thousands of people, who stood to admire their vast numbers in several parts both of city, the suburbs, and in Southwark: with the opinions of most learned persons concerning this surprizing prodigy. Licensed according to order.

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

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A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP