Lord George Lyttelton - Worcester Cathedral

walwyn Tue, 08/16/2011 - 23:51

 

This tomb in Worcester Cathedral is of Lord George Lyttelton (d1876) by James Forsyth.

 

 

Tomb of Robert Wylde and Wife - Worcester Cathedral

walwyn Mon, 08/15/2011 - 19:08

This tomb of Robert Wylde (d1607) and wife Margaret, is in the south aisle of Worcester Cathedral. In consists of two effigies laying on mats with their heads on cushions. Both are wearing black and dressed in a late Elizabethan style with ruff collars.

 

Richard Edes - Worcester Cathedral

walwyn Mon, 08/15/2011 - 00:36

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This freestanding monument to Richard Eedes (1604), dean of Worcester cathedral, consists of a large canopied sarcophagus with a recumbent effigy.

 

 

Pimplinae

walwyn Sun, 08/14/2011 - 22:49

 

 

A subfamily of Ichneumonidae wasps with some 95 genera, that are mainly parasites of Lepidoptera pupae.

 

Bishop John Stanbury - Hereford Cathedral.

walwyn Fri, 08/12/2011 - 21:43

This carved alabaster monument of Bishop John Stanbury contains his effigy and has saints and angels as mourners carrying shields around all sides. Unfortunately the heads of the angels were chipped off during the reformation.

 

 

Bombus pascuorum

walwyn Fri, 08/12/2011 - 00:28

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Species: B. pascuorum

 

Bombus vestalis

walwyn Thu, 08/11/2011 - 22:46

 

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Species: B. vestalis

 

Tenebrionoidea

walwyn Thu, 08/11/2011 - 00:12

 

The Tenebrionoidea is a large family of mostly flightless, nocturnal ground beetles with some 20,000 species worldwide.

 

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