no vertebral column

Tropical beetle ventral view showing large hind legs and metallic red and green colouration

Buprestid metallic wood boring beetle cut to whtie showing its extraordinary rainbow colouration

Banded jewel beetle Chrysochroa buqueti rugicollis with wings outstetched and banded elytra on show, red metallic thorax

Colorado Potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata life cycle with adult, egg, pupa, and colourful orange grub all cut to whtie

Cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis adult and larva and pupa, the latter two inside developing cotton bolls

Dicronorrhina derbyana Derby’s flower chafer

Dorcadion scopoli Longhorn beetle cut to white

Dung beetle Oxysternon conspicillatum dorsal view

Dung beetle Geotrupes stercorarius view from above dosal view

Eupholus bennetti weevil from above showing amazing powder blue and black markings

Line drawing of a typical member of the scorpion family

Line drawing of a typical member of the spider family

Pen and ink illustration with brown watercolour top wash of a representative of the spider family

Wolf spider Lycosa

American lobster Homarus americanus pair with male with large claw and long red antennae in the foregrouf, female behind, colouration as when alive

White clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes very simplifies line and wash drawing showing the crusatcean in profile

White clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes in profile with claws lifted and antennae extended

Pen and ink illustration showing the diversity of members in the Crustacea family

Edible crab Cancer pagurus pen and ink illustration with rich watercolour top wash, cut to white, stippled, view from above

Fresh water shrimp Gammarus pulex on a sandy background showing its laterally compressed sides

Horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus wayercolour showing dorsal view of top of shell, cut to white

Woodlouse Porcellio scaber illustration showing the rough crey surface and segmented body. Cut to whtie

Honey bee Apis mellifera visiting the pear blossom in spring

Bilberry bumblebee Bombus monticola in amongst heath plants and heather with distinctive orange furry abdomen