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Insect life: Souvenirs of a naturalist
Jean-Henri Fabre and F. Merrifield
Fabre watches a hunting wasp deliver three precise strokes of a dagger and paralyze prey without killing it, then reasons out why. These souvenirs of a naturalist follow the yellow-winged sphex, the cerceris, and their buried larvae through the sun-baked south of France. Patient, story-driven entomology from its finest observer. Kneel in the dust and watch closely.
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33 chapters
- 1PREFACE
- 2CONTENTS
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4I THE SACRED BEETLE
- 5II THE ENCLOSURE
- 6III CERCERIS BUPRESTICIDA
- 7IV CERCERIS TUBERCULATA
- 8V ONE SKILFUL TO SLAY
- 9VI THE YELLOW-WINGED SPHEX
- 10VII THREE STROKES OF A DAGGER
- 11VIII LARVA AND NYMPH
- 12IX ADVANCED THEORIES
- 13X THE SPHEX OF LANGUEDOC
- 14XI THE SCIENCE OF INSTINCT
- 15XII THE IGNORANCE OF INSTINCT
- 16XIII AN ASCENT OF MONT VENTOUX
- 17XIV THE EMIGRANTS
- 18XV THE AMMOPHILA
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