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  • Parasitoid wasps on a female bush cricket
  • Four wasps (Vespa species), two around vegetation. Coloured etching.
  • Chickweed plant (Cerastium glomeratum) with two associated wasps and their anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • An actor representing an official by a wasps' nest. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • A variety of insects including beetles, moths, wasps and flies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.
  • A variety of insect life including beetles, wasps and dragonflies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.
  • Martyrdom of five male saints by suspension from an elaborate crucifix, one being stung by wasps. Woodcut.
  • Silphium perfoliatum L. Asteraceae Indian Cup. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that another species, S. compositum, was used by Native Americans to produce a chewing gum from the dried sap of the roots, and Native American medicinal uses for 'Indian Cup' are probably referrable to S. compositum and not S. perfoliatum. Silphium perfoliatum contains enzymes that inhibit trypsin and chymotrypsin which gives it resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attacks. Male gall wasps (Antisotrophus rufus) alter the chemistry of the plant to enable them to locate females, making it a 'signpost' plant. The gall wasp lays its eggs in the stem of Silphium laciniatum, to provide food for the larva on emergence, and the galls containing a male or a female wasp will cause the plant to give off a different chemical odour. Emerging male wasps can search for female wasps, which emerge later, by locating this chemical fragrance which acts as a sex pheromone proxy (Tooker et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26
  • Wasp
  • Wasp nest, LM
  • Wasp nest, LM
  • Parasitoid wasp, lateral
  • Wasp head, micro-CT
  • Vespula vulgaris (common wasp)
  • Parasitoid wasp Wallaceaphytis kikiae, LM.
  • Yellow Jacket Wasp, anterior view
  • Fairy fly (Himopolynema), parasitoid wasp
  • Parasitoid wasp, lateral, close up, head
  • Yellow jacket (Dolichovespula arenaria) wasp stinger
  • View inside a wasp head, micro-CT
  • Beetle larva living on a spider-hunting wasp
  • Six dragonflies and a wasp. Lithograph by G. Engelmann after P. Oudart.
  • A frog standing on a mushroom feeding a wasp to a sleeping frog underneath him. Colour lithograph after E.M.
  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
  • Two monkeys sitting on a pineapple in a fruit bowl are attentively watching a wasp on the fruit stalk. Steel engraving by T. Landseer after E. H. Landseer.
  • Above, two humming birds, two molluscs, a mocking thrush, a hoopoe, and a racoon; below, a bat, a wasp, two mongooses, a vulture, a fish and a polar bear. Engraving.
  • The martyrdom of Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa. Etching after T. Stothard.
  • The martyrdom of Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa. Etching after T. Stothard.
  • Ten insects, including an ichneumon, a gnat and a king, a queen, a labourer and a soldier ant. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.