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  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
  • The foudouk, before restoration, Fez, Morocco. Photograph, ca. 1922.
  • The feeding trough, restored, inside the walls of the Bab al-Guissa Mosque, Fez, Morocco. Photograph, ca. 1922.
  • Fez, Morocco: the path to Bab Ghissa with ruins in the background and donkeys and cloaked figures in the foreground. Photograph, 1922.
  • Ornate doorway of the Medersa (Koranic college) of the Bab Ghissa Mosque, Fez, Morocco; male cloaked figure sitting on the steps. Photograph, ca. 1922.
  • A man in a fez is leading a richly decorated horse past an ornamental balcony towards a landscaped garden. Etching by M. E. Ridinger after J. E. Ridinger.
  • The Bureau of Hygiene, Fez, Morocco: a group of Moroccan and Western men leaving the building on the Inauguration Day for the 'casier sanitaire', 26 June 1922. Photograph, 1922.
  • The Martial Director of Hygiene Services (?), on muleback with three standing Moroccan men, outside the medical preventorium (?), before restoration work has begun, Fez, Morocco. Photograph, ca. 1922.
  • Scoop the poop! : clear up after your dog / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office.
  • Scoop the poop! : clear up after your dog / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office.
  • Poop scoop campaign / Lewisham Directorate of Environmental Services ; Contracts Management Group.
  • Poop scoop campaign / Lewisham Directorate of Environmental Services ; Contracts Management Group.
  • The month May and the sign Gemini, represented by a hilly landscape in spring and Christ and the woman of Samaria. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
  • A doctor enthusiastically examines a patient's stools. Colour process print after F.L. Gottlob.
  • A physician examines a patient's stools; he is very pleased; the sarcastic maid asks him if he would like a fork. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison, c. 1890.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen. Mezzotint by J. Smith after G. Schalcken.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Engraving by J. Sadeler.
  • A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen. Mezzotint by J. Smith, 1691, after C. Smith.
  • Saint Agnes. Mezzotint by J. Smith, 1716, after Sir G. Kneller.
  • Saint Bernardino of Siena. Line engraving by J. Sadeler after F. Vanni.
  • A pack of dogs chasing and ferociously attacking two stags in a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A mason (architect) with the tools of his trade. Mezzotint by J. Gole after G.M. Mitelli.
  • Queen Mary II. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling after P. Lely, ca. 1689.
  • Queen Mary II. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling after P. Lely, ca. 1689.
  • Job lies on a pile of dung dressed in a loincloth and covered in boils, his wife goes to fetch a bucket of water. Woodcut.
  • A black man with a red head and right arm emerges from a foul stream into a landscape where a winged woman is waiting for him with a red garment; representing the transformations of the alchemical work from corruption to perfection. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A young woman sits drinking in an arbor as a man prepares to smoke at the table beside her. Etching by C. Dusart, 1694.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.