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  • Bees: eleven figures showing male and female bees, with diagrams detailing their anatomy. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Four insects, possibly bees, woodcut, 1547
  • Apiculture: bees, combs and swarms. Engraving by H. Summons.
  • Thirteen bees (Apis species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.
  • Ten bees (Apis species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.
  • The diligence of the bees as a model of devout contemplation. Etching.
  • The diligence of the bees as a model of devout contemplation. Etching.
  • David Livingstone and his men stung by bees in central Africa. Lithograph.
  • Honey-flavoured cough sweets in the form of bees. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • Twelve different species of bees swarming a flowery meadow. Coloured etching by J. Bishop, 1855, after J. Stewart.
  • A bear trying to retrieve honey from a tree trunk is stung by bees. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A bear overturns a barrel and is stung by bees; representing Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A bear has overturned a beehive and is attacked by bees. Etching by J. Kirk after F.Barlow for a fable by Aesop.
  • Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) sitting on a purple flower. Bees are important pollinators and play a crucial role in promoting the growth of crops and flowers. The aposematic yellow and black banding pattern on the bee acts as a warning to deter predators.
  • Above, a bee presents a honeycomb to the Olympian gods in the clouds; below, bees are flying into and out of two wicker beehives; illustration of a fable. Etching by F. Barlow.
  • A bear has overturned two hives and is trying to prize out honey from a third while being attacked by bees; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.
  • A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.
  • A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.
  • Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone and John Bright depicted as bees around a beehive; representing the United Kingdom General Election of 1880. Engraving by W. Dewane after himself, March 1880.
  • A new orchard and garden ... With the country housewifes garden ... As also the husbandry of bees ... Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants / [by Simon Harwood].
  • A new orchard and garden ... With the country housewifes garden ... As also the husbandry of bees ... Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants / [by Simon Harwood].
  • Above, two bees, two marmots, a tropical palm, a heron and a crane; below, two spiders, a treelike plant, two fish and a tunicate animal of the class Ascidiacea. Engraving by Heath.
  • A man sits back wearing an open dressing gown and white shorts with a woman behind; he holds a packet of condoms bearing the lettering: 'Birds'n bees ...'; an advertisement for an exhibition of AIDS posters. Colour silk screen print after R. Scholte, 1993.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden, London. Close-up of bees at honeycomb tray. Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. Their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food. Honey is collected in the form of nectar from flowers and concentrated into honey by evaporation. For most people bee stings are of little significance and are treated locally; other persons, however, react with hypersensitivity putting them in serious danger.
  • Bee (Anthophora)
  • Honey bee
  • Honey Bee
  • Bee pupa, SEM
  • Blue Bee (unknown species)