Insects, variegated oil beetle, Meloe variegatus, egg-laying female in front, on the bees and in the flowers the first larval form, the second left in the cocoons, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

19 CENTURY • 1900S • 1990S • 19TH CENTURY • 19TH CENTURY. • 19TH • 19TH-CENTURY • 90S • ANIMAL • ANIMALS • APIFORMES • APIS • ASSORTED • BEE • BEES • BEETLE • BEETLES • BLACK AND WHITE • BLACK • BLACK-AND-WHITE • BLACK-WHITE • BLISTER BEETLE • BLISTER BEETLES • BLOOM • BLOSSOM • BLOSSOMS • BREEDING • BUG (INSECT) • BUG • BUTTERFLY CATERPILLAR • CATERPILLAR • CATERPILLARS • COCOON • COCOONS • COLEOPTERA • COLEOPTERAN • COLORED • COLORFUL • COLORFULLY • COLOURED • COLOURFUL • COLOURFULLY • CONTEMPORARY • COPY • DEPICTION • DEPICTIONS • DESERTED • DEVELOPMENT • DEVELOPMENTS • DIAGRAM • DIFFERENT COLOURED • DIFFÉRENT • DIFFERING • DIGITAL • DIGITALLY • DIVERSE • DRAWING • DRAWINGS • DRAWN • EGG COCOON • EMPTY • FEMALE ANIMAL • FEMALE ANIMALS • FEMALE • FEMALES • FLEUR • FLOWER • FLOWERING • FLOWERS • FORMER • FORMERLY • GROWTH • HISTORIC ILLUSTRATION • HISTORIC ILLUSTRATIONS • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATION • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HYMENOPTERA • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • IMAGE MOTIF • IMAGE • IN FLOWER • INFLORESCENCE • INFLORESCENCES • INSECT • INSECTA • INSECTS • MELOE • MELOIDAE • MISCELLANEOUS • MOTIF • MULTI-COLORED • MULTI-COLOURED • MULTICOLOURED • NATURE • NINETEENTH CENTURY • NINETIES • NINETIES, THE • NINETY DECADE • NO ONE • NO PEOPLE • NO-ONE • NOBODY • OIL BEETLES • OLD • PLANT • PLANTA • PLANTAE • PLANTS • PUPATION • RECONSTRUCTION • REFURBISHMENT • REPLICA • REPLICATION • REPRESENTATION • REPRODUCTION • RESTORATION WORK • RESTORATION • RESTORATIONS • RESTORED • SECOND • SKETCH • TODAY • UNINHABITED • VARIED • VARIEGATED • VARIETY OF • VARIOUS • VARYING • VINTAGE • WHITE • WITHOUT PEOPLE • WOODBLOCK PRINT • WOODCUT • WOODCUTS • WOODPRINT • XIX CENTURY • XYLOGRAPH • XYLOGRAPHY