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A man volunteering to act as a subject in a medical experiment, unaware that it involves being stung by a gigantic and angry wasp. Pen and ink drawing by Patrick Wright, ca. 1992.
Wright, Patrick.Date: [1992?]Reference: 38482iPart of: Worthless pursuits- Digital Images
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Vespula vulgaris (common wasp)
Annie Cavanagh- Archives and manuscripts
Wasp Sting
Date: 1950sReference: PP/GWP/C/6/71Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Books
Alternating generations : a biological study of oak galls and gall flies / by Hermann Adler ... Tr. and edited by Charles R. Straton.
Adler, Hermann, 1841-1921.Date: 1894- Audio
The human hive.
Date: 2017- Digital Images
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Yellow jacket (Dolichovespula arenaria) wasp stinger
Macroscopic Solutions- Books
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The Vermin-killer: Being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders. And some useful directions for gardening and husbandry; and likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c. With many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1755?]- Books
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The Vermin-killer: Being a compleat and necessary family-book. Shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, pests of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, ... pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in house and gardens, bug, lice, fleas, &c. also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders. And some useful directions for gardening and husbandry; and likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c. With many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1755?]- Books
The vermin-killer being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders and some useful directions for gardening and husbandry. And likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c., with many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1770?]- Archives and manuscripts
Film proposal for the novel The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Date: 1986Reference: PP/DAL/F/2/5Part of: Dally, Ann Gwendolen, and Dally, Peter John- Pictures
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A frog standing on a mushroom feeding a wasp to a sleeping frog underneath him. Colour lithograph after E.M.
Date: [1895?]Reference: 18424i- Pictures
A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
Date: May 1869Reference: 572649iPart of: The water cure illustrated.- Pictures
A coat of arms with clysters; representing the reign of Louis-Philippe. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 16876i- Pictures
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Two types of quadrant and a branch of common oak (Quercus robur) with galls. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1826.
Date: [1827]Reference: 25508i- Pictures
Insects with the heads of humans assail a bee hive as ministerial bees emerge to defend the Treasury bench. Line block after J. Gillray, 1873.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603166i- Pictures
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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.
Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873.Reference: 40152i- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 40540i- Books
The sting of the wild / Justin O. Schmidt.
Schmidt, Justin O., 1947-2023Date: 2016- Books
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Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia: containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants, on above three hundred copper-plates, with English and Latin names. The shells have English, Latin, and native names. N.B. Above one hundred of these plates were never published before. To which are now added seventeen curious tracts, most of them so scarce as not to be purchased, which completes all he ever wrote upon natural history; viz, Gazophylacium naturæ et artis. Musei rariora naturæ, &c. 238 land and water beetles. 26 Humble-bees. 19 British fresh-water fishes. 42 [British] land and water shells. 100 [British] sea-shells, eggs, stars, &c. 26 Kentish 25 Sheppey 59 Gloucestershire fossils. 112 Merian's Surinam insects. On snails and worms being Hermaphrodites. Ray's Method of plants illustrated. Herbs of the same class have similar virtues. Virginian cicada, wasps, bees, &c. The two volumes containing above ten thousand articles, engraved in the most accurate manner, from originals, the gifts of the most eminent persons in all nations. The additions corrected by the late Mr. James Empson, of the British Museum, &c.
Petiver, James, 1663 or 1664-1718.Date: 1767- Digital Images
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Ichneumonidae
Macroscopic Solutions- Archives and manuscripts
Bioallethrin (insecticide)
Date: 1977Reference: WF/M/PL/033Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
Kinsey.
Date: 2004- Archives and manuscripts
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"The Big Sting"
Date: 31 January 1983Reference: SA/MAR/331Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection- Digital Images
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Hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons) stinger
Macroscopic Solutions- Archives and manuscripts
Bioresmethrin (insecticide)
Date: 1977Reference: WF/M/PL/035Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd