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by Jean Henri Fabre
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ISBN: 0486401529 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
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Great French entomologist's charming essays on insect life combine scientific rigor with the style of a literary classic. Beautifully written passages reveal the intricate, fascinating worlds of the beetle, cicada, praying mantis, glow-worm, wasp, grub, cricket, locust, and other creatures as they hunt, build nests, feed families, and more. Rare volume will delight any naturalist.
Table of Contents for Fabre’s Book of Insects
| Publisher's Note | |||||||
| I My Work and My Workshop | |||||||
| II The Sacred Beetle | |||||||
| III The Cicada | |||||||
| IV The Praying Mantis | |||||||
| V The Glow-Worm | |||||||
| VI A Mason-Wasp | |||||||
| VII The Psyches | |||||||
| VIII The Self-Denial of the Spanish Copris | |||||||
| IX Two Strange Grasshoppers | |||||||
| X Common Wasps | |||||||
| XI The Adventures of a Grub | |||||||
| XII The Cricket | |||||||
| XIII The Sisyphus | |||||||
| XIV The Capricorn | |||||||
| XV Locusts | |||||||
| XVI The Anthrax Fly |