Caterpillar and flour mites Martin Frobene Ledermuller
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Caterpillar and flour mites
Two studies of insects viewed by microscope, under magnification. Figure 1 shows a hatched caterpillar, with a natural size in situ detail of the leaf on which it was found. Figure 2 shows flour mites, with an inset detail showing the creatures at actual size.
Plate 33 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature... by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1764).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB.XXXIII.’ Inscribed below: ‘M.F.Lederm. del. A.W.W. excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table XXXIII. Figure 1. Une petite Chenille avec la Coquille de l’Oeuf dont elle est sortie’ [A small caterpillar with the egg-case from which it emerged] and ‘Figure 2. Des mites dans las Farine’ [Flour mites].
Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
- Image reference: RS-18135
- ©The Royal Society
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