Scientific Illustration

A honey bee compound eye

From ‘Structure and development of the compound eye of the honey bee’ by Everett Franklin Phillips

Tagged: bee insect eye honey bee Everett Franklin Phillips compound eye

Posted on November 23, 2012 with 137 notes

‘Kurze und leichtfaßliche Anleitung zur Bienenzucht und Bienenpflege’ by A. Niemandsfreund; F. Huber, 1831. (via BibliOdyssey)

“Bees, it is said, are the most studied creatures on the planet after man.”

Tagged: scientific-illustration bees drawing insects nature beehive apiary honey bee bee

Posted on May 8, 2012 via drawing detail with 89 notes

Longitudinal, median, vertical section of entire body of worker [bee]

From: ‘The anatomy of the honey bee’ by R. E. Snodgrass (1910)

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Posted on March 12, 2012 with 67 notes

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A honey bee embryo

From: ‘The embryology of the honey bee’ (1915)

Tagged: honey bee bee hymenoptera insect developmental biology Apis mellifera

Posted on March 12, 2012 with 30 notes

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

by Noel Badges Pugh

watercolor

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Posted on February 21, 2012 with 108 notes

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