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  • Bogbean or buckbean plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) with an associated insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Bedstraw or crosswort plant (Galium cruciatum) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Levant or wild madder plant (Rubia peregrina) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Prickly poppy (Argemone mexicana): flowering stem with caterpillar and insect. Etching by J. Pass, c. 1798, after J. Ihle.
  • Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Papaw or papaya (Carica papaya): flowering branch, sectioned fruit and insect. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1800, after J. Ihle.
  • Above, an insect, three gastropod molluscs, a guinea hen and a prickly ophidian; below, an ostracean, a tobacco plant, two insects, two orioles, and an ornithoryncus. Engraving by Heath.
  • A foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum): flowering stems with butterfly and other insect. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Above, an insect, a monkey, a plant (bromelia), a shell and three birds; below, a beetle, a cactus and two plants. Engraving by Heath.
  • A flowering fuchsia (Fuchsia coccinea) and a planthopper insect (Fulgora diadema) in both pupal and adult state. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1805, after J. Ihle.
  • A large insect with a message indicating that AIDS is not transmitted through bug bites; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Above, a bird, a Cretan sheep and two African sheep, an insect and a mollusc; below, three butterflies, a bird of paradise and a titmouse. Engraving by Heath.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Above, two hogs, an insect, a sea horse, a tanager bird, and a large tapeworm; below, an ibis, a tapir, a teredo (ship-worm), two tortoises and a mollusc. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, a bird, a cricket, an insect, a branch and fruit of the guaiacum tree, an eel and a sea-pie; below, a sprig of a flower, three molluscs, two insects and a piece of a ferric oxide ore. Engraving by Heath.
  • You can't get HIV from : giving blood, insect bites, glasses, cutlery, towels, toilet seats, shaking hands, sharing meals, cups, kissing : you risk getting HIV by sharing needles or syringes, having unprotected sex / LHB.
  • Above, an insect, a musk rat, a siren (eel-shaped taile amphibian), and two hawk moths; below, a shark, a sponge, a vertebrate, an owl, a noddy (a tropical sea bird) and a stapelia. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, three fish, four chitons (marine molluscs), a chimaera (a cartilaginous fish of the family Chimeridae), a chrysis (quiescent pupa of butterfly or moth), a cicada, two clematis flowers and three insects; below, flowers and sprig of the coccoloba and a male and a female cochineal insect. Engraving by Heath.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with Croatian lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with Turkish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with Albanian lettering on how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with Portuguese lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with Spanish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with English lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • The HIV virus with the silhouette of a couple, 2 people injecting drugs and a blood transfusion; below further illustrations relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including through insect bites and handshaking; a warning about how AIDS is and is not contracted. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A group of people eating around a table, an enlarged insect on skin, and two women in an office with the message 'How is HIV not spread'; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.