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The Hunting Wasps
Jean-Henri Fabre and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
A wasp stings its prey exactly where the nerves lie, paralyzing without killing, so the grub eats fresh meat for weeks. Jean-Henri Fabre calls the yellow-winged Sphex a scientific slaughterer and shows its three fatal dagger-thrusts. Astonishing, precise natural history from the master of the insect world. Watch instinct perform surgery it was never taught. The wasps are stranger than any fiction.
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63 chapters
- 1THE WORKS OF J. H. FABRE
- 2Translator’s Note
- 3Contents
- 4Chapter i THE BUPRESTIS-HUNTING CERCERIS
- 5Chapter ii THE GREAT CERCERIS
- 6Chapter iii A SCIENTIFIC SLAUGHTERER
- 7Chapter iv THE YELLOW-WINGED SPHEX
- 8Chapter v THE THREE DAGGER-THRUSTS
- 9Chapter vi THE LARVA AND THE NYMPH
- 10Chapter vii ADVANCED THEORIES
- 11Chapter viii THE LANGUEDOCIAN SPHEX
- 12Chapter ix THE WISDOM OF INSTINCT
- 13Chapter x THE IGNORANCE OF INSTINCT
- 14Experiment I
- 15Experiment II
- 16Experiment III
- 17Experiment IV
- 18Chapter xi AN ASCENT OF MONT VENTOUX
+ 45 more. The full contents open with the book.
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