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Caterpillars eating a hole in a tartan fabric; advertising Globol insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1958.
Date: [1958]Reference: 664019i- Archives and manuscripts
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Article "No Caterpillars by Request"
Date: c.1943Reference: HALDANE/2/1/2/1Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
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A short history of the brown-tail moth, the Caterpillars of which are at present uncommonly numerous and destructive in the Vicinity of the Metropolis. Illustrated by a Copper-Plate, coloured from Nature, representing the Insect in its various States. By William Curtis, author of the Flora Londinensis.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Archives and manuscripts
Summary of a work on caterpillars.
Date: 29 January 1747Reference: MS.5403/65Part of: Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)- 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: [1765?]- Books
The wondrous transformation of caterpillars : fifty engravings selected from Erucarum ortus (1718) / Maria Sibylla Merian ; with an introduction by William T. Stearn.
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717.Date: 1978- Books
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The compleat vermin-killer: a valuable and useful companion for families, in town and country: Containing safe and quick methods of Destroying Bugs, Lice, Fleas, Rats, Mice, Moles, Weazels, Caterpillars, Frogs, Pismires, Snails, Flies, Moths, Earwigs, Wasps, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, And Fish and Birds of all Kinds, &c. &c. To which are added useful family receipts, for the preparation of medicines, for the cure of common disorders. The gentleman farrier; or, Directions for the Purchase, Management, and Cure of Horses. The Compendious Gardener and Husbandman; or, Observations Relative to Gardening, Husbandry, &c. With divers other Matters, well worthy the Notice of the Country Gentleman, the Farmer, and every House-Keeper.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The complete vermin-killer: a valuable and useful companion for families, in town and country: containing safe and quick methods of destroying bugs, lice, Fleas, Rats, Mice, Moles, Weasels, Caterpillars, Frogs, Pismires, Snails, Flies, Moths, Earwigs, Wasps, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, And Fish and Birds of all Kinds, &c. &c. To which are added useful family receipts, for the preparation of medicines, for the Cure of Common Disorders. The gentleman farrier; or, directions for the purchase, management and cure of horses. The compendious gardener and husbandman; or, Observations Relative to Gardening, Husbandry, &c. With divers other Matters, well worthy the Notice of the Country Gentleman, the Farmer, and every House-Keeper. The fourth edition. With considerable additions.
Date: [1777]- Pictures
A primrose (Primula vulgaris) with an associated butterfly, its caterpillars and anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1 July 1830Reference: 24056i- Pictures
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Lord Rosebery and two other politicians represented as caterpillars searching for leaves in a barren landscape. Drawing by A.S. Boyd, ca. 1895.
Boyd, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1854-1930.Date: [1894-1895?]Reference: 572932i- Books
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The school of arts; or new book of Useful Knowledge. Containing the management and breeding of canary birds. Monthly Observations in the Orchard, Kitchen and Flower Gardens Observations in Husbandry, in the Manuring, Plowing, Weeding, and Enriching of Land. The Vermin Killer; teaching how to destroy Bugs, Lice, Fleas, Mice, Rats, Moles, Weasels, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, Wasps, Worms, Snails, Flies, Pisinires, Caterpillars, Spiders, &c. Those rare secrets how to catch Fish, and make Bird Lime, together with a valuable collection of receipts, for the cure of most disorders incident to horse and beasts, with the management of Horses on Journies, by J. Cundall, late of Brandsby. To which is added, the whole art of painting in oil & water colours. Gilding with Gold and Silver. The Method of colouring Maps. The curious Art of Varnishing and Japanning, with Receipts for making Varnish and Japan. To stain Wood, Horn, Bone, Ivory, Leather, Paper and Parchment, different Colours. To take Spots out of Silks, Stuffs, Linen, or Woollen, and many other Things worthy of Note.
Cundall, J.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A short history of the brown-tail moth : the caterpillars of which are at present uncommonly numerous and destructive in the vicinity of the metropolis / by William Curtis.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: 1782- Pictures
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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.
Utagawa, Kuniaki, 1835-1888.Date: 1883Reference: 36756i- Pictures
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A caterpillar. Engraving.
Reference: 42724i- Books
The story of Mid City- and its sanitary landfill / Caterpillar Tractor Co. ... Fred Myers Tractor and Equipment Company.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Books
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The philosophical puppet show, or, Snip's inauguration to the president's chair, addressed to Sir J--- B---, ... a celebrated connoisseur in chickweed, caterpillars, black beetles, butterflies, and cockle-sehlls [sic]. By Simon Snip, F.R.S.
[Snip, Simon, F.R.S.]Date: 1778?]- Books
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The philosophical puppet-show, or, Snip's inauguration to the President's Chair : addressed to Sir J[oseph] B[anks], barōnetos, a celebrated conoisseur in chickweed, caterpillars, black beetles, butterflies and cockle-shells / By Simon Snip [pseud].
Snip, Simon, pseud.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The caterpillars and the gooseberry bush, or a true figure of the bad passions and their Mischievous Effects; together With a brief account of their origin and cure, in three dialogues, between a father and his son, Designed for the Instruction of youth.
Clowes, J. (John), 1743-1831.Date: 1800- Books
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The genera of British moths : Popularly described and arranged according to the system now adopted in the British Museum / Illus. by a series of picturesque plates, exhibiting the insects in their different stages, with the caterpillars and the plants on which they are generally found.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1860?]- Pictures
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An amulet in the form of the Conaĉ or Murrain caterpillar used to ward off that particular creature. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 18413i- Pictures
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A maggot in an arable field. Engraving.
Reference: 42726i- Archives and manuscripts
Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)
Bonnet, Charles, 1720-1793.Date: 1748, c. 1760Reference: MS.1302Part of: Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)- Pictures
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Twenty five different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.
Reference: 42243i- Pictures
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Two flowering plants: sheep's-bit (Jasione montana) and jasmine (Jasminum officinale), with a hawk-moth caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.
Date: 12 March 1811Reference: 25542i- Books
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Traité anatomique de la chenille, qui ronge le bois de saule. Augmenté d'une explication abrégée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi pour anatomiser à la loupe et au microscope / Par Pierre Lyonet.
Lyonet, Pierre, 1706-1789.Date: 1762