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Ten insects, including the earwig, cockroach, grasshopper, praying mantis, cricket and mole cricket. Coloured engraving by J. W. Lowry after C. Bone.
Wellcome Collection

Ten insects, including the earwig, cockroach, grasshopper, praying mantis, cricket and mole cricket. Coloured engraving by J. W. Lowry after C. Bone.

Charles Bone

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Entomology. Order: Orthoptera. 1 Forficula auricularia. earwig 2 Blatta laponica Lapland cockroach 3 Tridactylus paradoxus 4 Mantis religiosa praying mantis 5 Acanthodis imperialis the emperor black and green cricket 6 Acrydium coerulescens blue-winged grasshopper 7 Gryllotalpa vulgaris mole-cricket 8 Acrydium bipunctatum 9 Truxalis nasuta 10 Idolothrips spectrum (highly magnified) Order: Thysanoptera

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