Paul D Stewart / Male Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea eutryphon / arion) collected in 1865. It is here surrounded by other extant UK blue butterfly species. The large Blue was first recorded as a British species in 17...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The Entomologist'. Rare copper print with original hand colouring, drawn by George Spratt, printed by George Madely, and sold individually as part of a series through Charles Tilt's F...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of a Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), with hand colouring possibly by Donovan himself. While most plates were thinly coloured to tint the interstices of the lines of the engraving b...

Solvin Zankl / Slender Burnet moth (Zygaena loti) on Field scabious flower with group of entomologists in the background, Crawinkel, Germany

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio machaon) on Fennel by Maria Sybella Merian 1683, from her book 'Caterpillars, Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculiar Nourishment from Flowers'. Meri...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Red admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) life stages and parasites. By Maria Sybella Merian 1683, from her book 'Caterpillars, Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculiar Nourishment fr...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Hornets and Wasps, from Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects by J.O. Westwood, 1845.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Goliath Beetle (Goliathus goliatus) and Chafer beetles, from Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects by J.O. Westwood, 1845

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Death's head hawkmoth (caterpillars, pupa and imago (adult) copperplate art by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof, 1744.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of various large rhinoceros beetles (Dynastinae) by August Johann Rosel von Rosenhof, from his works published in 'Insecten' 1762

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Greater crucifix beetle (Panagaeus cruxmajor) from Donovan's 'Natural History of British Insects', circa 1806.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of Privet hawkmoth (Sphinx ligustri), and Small tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais urticae) showing 'aurelian' chrysalis. Plate II in the first edition of the Aurelian by Moses Ha...