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feat: bee butts

maoyeamh :

throughwinterfields :

Kael Rebick

antiqueanimals :

Album of Birds, 1982, Tom McGowen. Illustrated by Rod Ruth.

treasure-of-the-ancients :

Gold tourmaline ring, Italian, 1520-1575

from The Art Institute of Chicago

mynocturnality :

The Palais Garnier or Opéra Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra

larvinya :

llanarose :

xeptum :

save the bees🐝

the-evil-clergyman :

Nymph at the Fountain by Guillaume Seignac (1900)

heaveninawildflower :

Page of Lepidoptera illustrations taken from ‘A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Hon East-India Company’ by Thomas Horsfield and Frederic Moore. Published 1857 by Wm H. Allen & Co.

Smithsonian Libraries   

Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

archive.org

heaveninawildflower :

Lepidoptera taken from ‘The Butterfly Book’ by W. J. Holland. Published 1914 by Doubleday, Page & Company.

Smithsonian Libraries   Biodiversity Heritage Library.

archive.org

Clicking on the image should take you to the book for a full explanation of the plate.

heaveninawildflower :

Lepidoptera taken from ‘The Butterfly Book’ by W. J. Holland. Published 1914 by Doubleday, Page & Company.

Smithsonian Libraries   Biodiversity Heritage Library.

archive.org

Clicking on the image should take you to the book for a full explanation of the plate.

heaveninawildflower :

Exotic butterflies (hand-coloured lithographs) taken from ‘Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies’ by W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.

Published 1856 by John Van Voorst.

Smithsonian Libraries.

archive.org

vintage-ukraine :

The Rooster and the Butterfly by Yavdokha Klyupa, 1986

boschintegral-photo :

Chestnut Tiger (Parantica Sita) Kyoto, Japan

eliselaserre :