To kick off #InsectWeek & #PollinatorWeek, another fun find from today’s perusal of Noah’s Ark books…bug jars! 😂 (If anyone knows of any similar illustrations please let me know!) 1. The Ark / Arthur Geisert (1988) 2. Noah’s Ark / Peter Spier (1977) Cotsen Children’s Library @ Princeton SC

It's here! Meet the Life on a Leaf Celebrating Caterpillars and Host Plants poster designed by Avani Hope🐛🦋🌱 Visit pollinator.org/poster-2026 to view the full design highlighting 19 unique caterpillar-host plant pairings and PRE-ORDER yours today! #Caterpillars #Plants #Pollinators #PollinatorWeek

Resharing for #WorldRainforestDay + #PollinatorWeek

Resharing for #WorldRainforestDay

Resharing for #WorldRainforestDay

#WorldCamelDay 🐪🐫: Looking @ Noah’s Ark books today…most arbitrarily depict either Dromedaries (1 hump) or Bactrians (2), but here’s one that shows both pairs & one that shows a a mixed pair! 1. Arche Noah (1903) 2. Die Arche Noah (1840s) Cotsen Children’s Library @ Princeton Special Collections

Resharing for #WorldCamelDay 🐪🐫

Resharing for #WorldCamelDay 🐪🐫

Resharing for #WorldCamelDay 🐪🐫

Resharing for #WorldCamelDay 🐪🐫

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the camels, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Camel Day, here is an illustration of a camel from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #WorldCamelDay #CamelDay #RareBooks

A spectral menagerie by Molly Devlin 🌿 www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/moll...

Through a meticulous process of cutting and scoring paper, Marisa Aragón Ware creates delicate curves to imitate the volume of leaves or bones and defines feathers, insect wings, and petals with precise veins and edges. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/mari...

Time for a wonderfully bizarre ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 742, f. 79v

Time for another ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619, f. 130r

This week’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Columbia Uni. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Plimpton 281, f. 64v

Some of the fine illustrations by Edward Julius Detmold featured in Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921). More on the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fabres-book-of-insects-1921

For #WorldEnvironmentDay today, “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extinct-animals

For #WorldOceansDay today, stunning colour lithographs from William Saville-Kent's The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893), created from the author's original watercolour sketches: publicdomainreview.org/collection/i...

Sea urchin tests (shells) from ‘Deliciae naturae selectae: oder, Auserlesenes naturalien-cabinet, welches aus den drey reichen der natur zeight, was von curiösen liebhabern aufbehalten und gesammelt zu werden verdienet’ by Georg Wolfgang Knorr. Published in Nuremberg, 1766-67. Library of Congress.

Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) from ‘An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas’ by Edward Donovan. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1800. Harvard’s Houghton Library. #naturalhistory #insectart

🦝 The mammals of Australia.. London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863.. [Source]

🦜 Extinct birds: London: Hutchinson & Co. ..., 1907. [Source]

Two Blue Horses by Franz Marc, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137721

Fishy initial. Psalter, Oxford ca. 1210. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 835, fol. 163r. #medieval #medievalart

Sea beasts. bestiary, England ca. 1226-1250. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 106r. #medieval #medievalart

God creating the animals. ‘The Taymouth Hours’, England 14th century. British Library, Yates Thompson 13, fol. 18r. #medieval #medievalart

A tower of giraffes for #WorldGiraffeDay! Such an apt #termOfVenery for the world’s tallest animal, celebrated on the longest day (in the northern hemisphere - or night in the southern). There are estimated to be only 117,000 remaining in the wild 🧵

Resharing for a belated #AmericanEagleDay / #BaldEagleDay 🦅

Resharing for a belated #AmericanEagleDay / #BaldEagleDay 🦅

For #HorseshoeCrabDay: 2 examples of animal alphabet books that solve for “X” by invoking an alternate name, xiphosaur / xiphosuran (derived from the scientific name for their order, Xiphosura, from the Greek for “sword tail”) 1. A Beastly Collection (1974) 2. Did Adam Name the Vinegarroon? (1982)

Resharing for International #HorseshoeCrabDay!

Resharing for International #HorseshoeCrabDay!

For #WorldGiraffeDay 🦒: front & back covers of Noah’s ABC, a Dean’s Rag Book c.1910s, with helpful note: “For the remainder of the giraffe see back cover.” 😂 another fun find from Cotsen Children’s Library @ Princeton Special Collections

On the blog for #WorldGiraffeDay 🦒: The Dabous #Giraffes
These two life-size giraffe petroglyphs (c. 6000-8000 BCE) are the largest known animal carvings in the world! More info here: arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/06/21/a...

Resharing for #WorldGiraffeDay 🦒

Resharing for #WorldGiraffeDay 🦒

Resharing for #WorldGiraffeDay 🦒

Resharing for #WorldGiraffeDay 🦒

The tiger is chasing a wild boar! 🐅 🐗 Read about the Hunting Scenes mosaic on this link: digitalguides.com.cy/en/antiquiti...

Roman mosaic of a pouncing tiger! From the Hunting Scenes mosaic at the House of Dionysos, a luxurious Roman residence at Nea Pafos in Cyprus. Late 2nd Century AD. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Two Roman finds from Rottweil (my beautiful hometown 😊): vessels in the shape of boars, dating 2nd century AD. They were used to hold oil. 📷 me

Octopus vase! 🐙 This Mycenaean pottery jar, made more than 3000 years ago, is decorated with a fabulous image of an octopus - look at the swirling tentacles, & those big round eyes! 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

😸 A companion to Mr. Bullock's London Museum and Pantherion [London]: Printed for the proprietor, 1812. [Source]

🦜 A monograph of the Paradiseidae or birds of paradise.. [London]For the subscibers, by the author, 1873.. [Source]

🦜 The birds of Australia.. London, Printed by R. and J. E. Taylor; pub. by the author, [1840]-48.. [Source]

🦥 The handy natural history Boston, R.G. Badger, The Gorham press, 1910. [Source]

🐦 Parrots in captivity /. London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887 [i.e. 1883-1888]. [Source]

Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences. Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33665581) #nature #illustration #art

Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences. Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33665299) #nature #illustration #art