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  • Black bee (unknown species)
  • Bumble bee (Bombus) head
  • Honey bee (unknown species)
  • Genitals of male bee.
  • Hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons) stinger
  • Honey bee eye & antenna
  • Head of a honey bee
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea physic garden
  • Varroa destructor, honey bee mite, SEM
  • Hairs on a bumble bee head, SEM
  • Head of a bumble bee (Bombus), SEM
  • Chinese woodcut: 'Bee's nest' and 'Well' abscesses
  • Doctrine of signatures : plant resembling a bee.
  • Anthophora bee upside down in Digitalis lanata flower
  • A bird, possibly a bee-eater (Merops apiaster). Coloured etching.
  • Apiculture: scenes of bee-keeping and honey-gathering. Wood engraving, 1885.
  • A bee's nest: external and internal views. Etching by M. Griffith.
  • Minute internal structure of humane brain, tench, bee, garden snail brain.
  • The honey-bee; its natural history, physiology and management / By Edward Bevan.
  • The honey-bee; its natural history, physiology and management / By Edward Bevan.
  • A wattled bee-eater. Etching by S. T. Edwards after A. Latham.
  • Ten bee-hives on wooden shelves; two men working in the foreground. Woodcut, ca. 1502.
  • Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Acriflavine 'B.D.' : has bee described by a physician as '...the finest antiseptic yet discovered'.
  • Seven flies (Muscæ species) and two bee flies (Bombylius species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.
  • Snapdragon flower (Antirrhinum majus) with five species of bee. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • Seven different types of insects including the bee, the butterfly and the dragonfly. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1804.
  • Anatomy, medicine and botany; top, kidneys; centre left, bee; centre right, hornet; bottom, Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum). Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Bee Larkspur (Delphinium sp. var.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J. Caldwall, c.1805, after P. Henderson.