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A groundsel plant (Senecio viscosus) with an associated beetle and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Date

1 April 1830

Reference

24044i

A cat's-ear plant (Hypochaeris radicata) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Date

1 December 1831

Reference

24230i

The aurelian: or, natural history of English insects; namely, moths and butterflies. Together with the plants on which they feed; A faithful Account of their respective Changes; their usual Haunts when in the winged State; and their standard names, as given and established by the worthy and ingenious Society of Aurelians. Drawn, engraved and coloured, from the natural subjects themselves. By Moses Harris, Secretary to the Aurelian Society.

Date

1766 [1773]

Spurge laurel plant (Daphne laureola) with an associated moth and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Date

1 August 1831

Reference

24213i

A campion plant (Silene cucubalus) with an associated moth, its caterpillar and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Date

1 May 1830

Reference

24046i

A moss with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Date

1 July 1830

Reference

24055i

A natural history of English insects. Illustrated with a hundred copper plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: and (for those who desire it) exactly coloured by the author Eleazar Albin, Painter.

Date

1720

A thistle (Carduus acanthoides) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Date

1 September 1830

Reference

24158i

A mint plant (Mentha species) with an associated moth or butterfly and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Date

1 August 1830

Reference

24165i

Wild garlic plant (Allium ursinum) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Date

1 August 1831

Reference

24211i