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  • Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Larva (caterpillar), pupa (cocoon) and adult moth on a plant
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.
  • Court ladies producing silk under the supervision of the empress; their tasks include preparing eggs, chopping mulberry leaves, feeding caterpillars and unwinding cocoons. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki II, 1883.
  • Silk fibres
  • Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP in its eyes
  • Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP
  • Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP
  • Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP
  • Three scenes relating to hydrotherapy and one concerning the production of silk. Pen drawing by J. Gülick.
  • The Virgin Mary and the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes; Joseph sits nearby. Etching by F. de Grado.