The Hunting Wasps
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About This Book
Renowned for only the last five years of his generally impoverished life (1823-1915), J. Henri Fabre is nonetheless recognized as one of the most respected and beloved entomologists in the world. He devoted his life to the study of insects and carefully (and beautifully) described his findings in book after book. Fabre was eighty-four when the last of the ten volumes of his magnum opus appeared—Souvenirs Entomologiques. He was suddenly discovered by such eminent literary figures as Maurice Maeterlinck, Edmund Rostand and Roman Rolland. Scientific societies in London, Brussels, Stockholm, Genev...
Chapters (62)(click to expand)
- THE WORKS OF J. H. FABRE
- Translator’s Note
- Chapter i THE BUPRESTIS-HUNTING CERCERIS
- Chapter ii THE GREAT CERCERIS
- Chapter iii A SCIENTIFIC SLAUGHTERER
- Chapter iv THE YELLOW-WINGED SPHEX
- Chapter v THE THREE DAGGER-THRUSTS
- Chapter vi THE LARVA AND THE NYMPH
- Chapter vii ADVANCED THEORIES
- Chapter viii THE LANGUEDOCIAN SPHEX
- Chapter ix THE WISDOM OF INSTINCT
- Chapter x THE IGNORANCE OF INSTINCT
- Experiment I
- Experiment II
- Experiment III
- Experiment IV
- Chapter xi AN ASCENT OF MONT VENTOUX
- Chapter xii THE TRAVELLERS
- Chapter xiii THE AMMOPHILÆ
- Chapter xiv THE BEMBEX
- Chapter xv THE FLY-HUNT
- Chapter xvi A PARASITE OF THE BEMBEX. THE COCOON
- Chapter xvii THE RETURN TO THE NEST
- Chapter xviii THE HAIRY AMMOPHILA
- Chapter xix AN UNKNOWN SENSE
- Chapter xx THE MODERN THEORY OF INSTINCT
- Appendix
- A Cerceris Antoniæ—H. Fab.
- B Cerceris Julii.—H. Fab.
- C Bembex Julii.—H. Fab.
- D Ammophila Julii.—H. Fab.
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
- Abbreviations
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