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More Hunting Wasps
Jean-Henri Fabre and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
A wasp stings its prey with surgical precision, paralyzing without killing so the larva can feed on living meat. Jean-Henri Fabre uncovers this unsettling drama among the pompili, scoliae, and tachytes, testing each riddle by experiment in the field. Grim, brilliant, and gripping, his account reads like detective work. Follow the master naturalist into the secret warfare of the sand.
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19 chapters
- 1MORE HUNTING WASPS
- 2Translated By Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, F. Z. S.
- 3TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
- 4Contents
- 5CHAPTER 1. THE POMPILI.
- 6CHAPTER 2. THE SCOLIAE.
- 7CHAPTER 3. A DANGEROUS DIET.
- 8CHAPTER 4. THE CETONIA-LARVA.
- 9CHAPTER 5. THE PROBLEM OF THE SCOLIAE.
- 10CHAPTER 6. THE TACHYTES.
- 11CHAPTER 7. CHANGE OF DIET.
- 12CHAPTER 8. A DIG AT THE EVOLUTIONISTS.
- 13CHAPTER 9. RATIONING ACCORDING TO SEX.
- 14CHAPTER 10. THE BEE-EATING PHILANTHUS.
- 15CHAPTER 11. THE METHOD OF THE AMMOPHILAE. (For these Sand-wasps, cf.
- 16CHAPTER 12. THE METHOD OF THE SCOLIAE.
- 17CHAPTER 13. THE METHOD OF THE CALICURGI.
- 18CHAPTER 14. OBJECTIONS AND REJOINDERS.
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