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Bees, Plate 70 lithograph from an 1820 edition of A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1728/30-1774). ID key printed on bottom: Honey Bee 1 Worker 2 Male 3 Queen / 4,5 Common Humble Bee / Lapidary Bee 6 Male 7 Female / 8 Moss or Carder Bee / 9 Donovan's Humble Bee / 10 Harris Humble Bee / False Humble Bees 11 Apathus Vestalis 12 Apathus Repestris

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