Owning includes offline reading and never expires.
Social Life in the Insect World
Jean-Henri Fabre and Bernard Miall
It begins with the old fable of the cicada and the ant, then quietly proves the fable wrong. Jean-Henri Fabre watches insects as living neighbors, not moral lessons, recording their real habits with a storyteller's patience. Fourteen illustrations follow the drama in the grass. The great observer at his warmest and most persuasive.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
55 chapters
- 1SOCIAL LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD
- 2J. H. FABRE
- 3Translated by
- 4BERNARD MIALL
- 5WITH 14 ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6CONTENTS
- 7ILLUSTRATIONS
- 8SOCIAL LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD
- 9CHAPTER I
- 10THE FABLE OF THE CIGALE AND THE ANT
- 11DURING THE DROUGHTS OF SUMMER THIRSTING INSECTS, AND NOTABLY THE ANT, FLOCK TO THE DRINKING-PLACES OF THE CIGALE.
- 12CHAPTER II
- 13THE CIGALE LEAVES ITS BURROW
- 14THE CIGALE AND THE EMPTY PUPA-SKIN.
- 15CHAPTER III
- 16THE SONG OF THE CIGALE
- 17CHAPTER IV
- 18THE CIGALE. THE EGGS AND THEIR HATCHING
+ 37 more. The full contents open with the book.
More in Nature, Gardens & Animals
Read it all with NaturaRead Plus
The whole catalogue for USD 6.99 per month. Or open all five apps with All-Access for USD 19.99 a month, or USD 149 a year.