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The Mason-Bees

Jean-Henri Fabre and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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How does a bee find her way home when you move her nest? Jean-Henri Fabre, the great watcher of insects, put the mason-bee to ingenious tests and reported every result. These famous experiments on homing, instinct, and nest-building read like detective stories. Science by patient wonder, from a master. Kneel in the field beside the finest of naturalists.

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15 chapters

  1. 1THE MASON-BEES
  2. 2Translated By Alexander Teixeira De Mattos
  3. 3TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
  4. 4Contents
  5. 5CHAPTER 1. THE MASON-BEES.
  6. 6CHAPTER 2. EXPERIMENTS.
  7. 7CHAPTER 3. EXCHANGING THE NESTS.
  8. 8CHAPTER 4. MORE ENQUIRIES INTO MASON-BEES.
  9. 9CHAPTER 5. THE STORY OF MY CATS.
  10. 10CHAPTER 6. THE RED ANTS.
  11. 11CHAPTER 7. SOME REFLECTIONS UPON INSECT PSYCHOLOGY.
  12. 12CHAPTER 8. PARASITES.
  13. 13CHAPTER 9. THE THEORY OF PARASITISM.
  14. 14CHAPTER 10. THE TRIBULATIONS OF THE MASON-BEE.
  15. 15CHAPTER 11. THE LEUCOPSES.
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