NHM_Fleas

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A visit to the @morethanadodo collection, & a quick peak at the fleas Two big names here - Charles Nathaniel Rothschild who described over 500 spp & Charles Darwin who collected this whilst on ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ What stories these fleas could tell

We have Olga Pawelczyk from Medical University of Silesia in Katowice over on @SynthesysEU. She is using the @NHM_IAC suite to measure many fleas for a new identification guide

Nothing makes me happier than seeing a GIANT FLEA adorning the outside of a museum!!! @NHM_Fleas #MuseumNerdsAbroad are now in Amsterdam at the @rijksmuseum

This mornings excellent collection find was this! The original plates used for the 1966 Hopkins and Rothschild Catalogue of fleas.. (and now maybe my Christmas cards) #collections @NHM_Library @NHM_London #copperplates

@flygirlNHM "The strength and beauty of this small creature, had it no other relation at all to man, would deserve a description."

@flygirlNHM Love Micrographia! That fold out is amazing! I’ve been scanning this over the last week for a Hooke thing too!

Ohh just discovered this press cutting in my charity shop purchase of Dear Lord Rothschild by his niece Miriam @guardianscience 🙌

Writing about fleas is lovely because of the folks who studied them. I get to shuffle through my books and admire the work that was published over 350 years ago..👊😎🙌 #RobertHooke was a master of the microscope

Sounds like the most perfect of parties #fleas

The #Rothschild collection of fleas is a marvellous thing. Kept in the original cabinets is a wealth biological data. One such cabinet is labelled monstrosities (!!) and this specimen resides in it! I wonder who added the description…#FridayFlea @NHM_Digitise @NHM_London

While the COVID-19 pandemic is still impacting our daily lives, zoonotic diseases aren’t new. Others include Ebola, HIV and the Plague, transmitted by the insects contained in this Museum Drawer: Find out more in this blog by @flygirlNHM #WorldZoonosesDay naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2017/02/16/fle…

@ceciliabogaard @NHM_London It was @AmoretWhitaker

A flea gun - for shooting fleas off servants. maybe I should apply to the @NHM_London for some new field equipment....#verrall18 #verrall

One of the earliest Japanese texts - in this case a scroll - on parasitic insects was called Kenbikyo Mushi No Zu (Illustrations of Microscopic Insects) published in 1860 #microscopy #fleas #parasites #Literature #books #japan #flea

@americanbeetles @Eugenius53 So much better 😎

Very excited - Simon Horsnall who took UK flea recording scheme (simon.horsnall@googlemail.com) and he’s at the @SISF_2022 showing off these beauties

Happy Valentine's Day, Twitter! I vouch that this is true, and indeed, an understatement. 💘

🐀🦠 Si quieres escuchar información sobre la #peste (enfermedad que tradicionalmente nos evoca a la Edad Media) desde una perspectiva actual, atent@ a este viernes 👇🏻👇🏻 #Pulgas #Roedores #YersiniaPestis

Happy Valentine’s Here is something to speculate on this morning!

We're looking for expert #taxonomists (amateur or professional) to help us ID some of the 70,000 species we're collecting for #DarwinTreeOfLife 🔬 Fancy a taxonomic trip to southern Scotland with @BFTWidlife? Read the poster linked below for more info!🧬 twitter.com/BFTWildlife/st…