| Summary: | This image depicts various beetles: Green June bug, Cotinus nitida (Linnaeus) (first row, left); Scarab, Dichotomius carolinus (Linnaeus) (first row, second); Milkweed beetle, Tetraopes texanus (Horn) (first row, third); Elm calligrapha, Calligrapha scalaris (Le Conte) (first row, right); Squash ladybird beetle, Epilachna borealis (Fabricius) (second row, left); Longhorn beetle, Plinthocoelium suaveolans (Linnaeus) (second row, middle); Unicorn beetle, or Eastern hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus (Linnaeus) (second row, right); Dung beetle, Phanaeus vindex (MacLachlan) (third row, middle right); Convergent ladybird beetle, Hippodamia convergens (Guerin) (third row, right); Tile-horned prionus, Prionus imbricornis (Linnaeus) (fourth row, left); Ox beetle, Stategus antaeus (Drury), on mushroom (fourth row, middle); Stag beetle, Lucanus capreolus (Fabricius) (fourth row, right); and and Stag beetle, Lucanus elaphus (Fabricius) (bottom, right).In 1838, English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse created a portfolio of watercolor miniatures for the insects of Alabama he observed while visiting the state. Gosse was one of the 19th Century's foremost naturalists. He called his portfolio Entomologia Alabamensis, which was never formally published and is now held by the British Library. This image from the portfolio was made from a color transparency purchased from the British Library in 1993.
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