Insect Adventures
by Jean-Henri Fabre
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About this eBook
- Author
- Zimm, Louise Hasbrouck, 1883-
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Jennifer Linklater and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Insects
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45812
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45812
- Release Date
- May 29, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.INSECT ADVENTURES — PREFACE — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS
- 2.CHAPTER I MY FIRST POND — THE GLASS POND
- 3.CHAPTER II THE CADDIS-WORM — THE PIRATES’ ATTACK — AN INSECT SUBMARINE
- 4.CHAPTER III THE MASON-BEES — AN ENEMY OF THE MASON-BEE — THE BEE HERSELF TURNED BURGLAR — SOME USEFUL VISITORS OF THE BEES
- 5.CHAPTER IV BEES, CATS AND RED ANTS — MY CATS — THE RED ANTS
- 6.CHAPTER V THE MINING BEES — THE GNAT AND THE GIANTESS — THE DOORKEEPERS
- 7.CHAPTER VI THE LEAF-CUTTING BEE
- 8.CHAPTER VII THE COTTON-BEES AND RESIN-BEES
- 9.CHAPTER VIII THE HAIRY SAND-WASPS — THE ATTACK
- 10.CHAPTER IX THE WASP AND THE CRICKET
- 11.CHAPTER X THE FLY-HUNTING WASP
- 12.CHAPTER XI PARASITES
- 13.CHAPTER XII FLY SCAVENGERS
- 14.CHAPTER XIII THE PINE CATERPILLAR — THE PROCESSIONARIES — THE CATERPILLARS AS WEATHER PROPHETS — THE PINE MOTH
- 15.CHAPTER XIV THE CABBAGE-CATERPILLAR
- 16.CHAPTER XV THE GREAT PEACOCK MOTH
- 17.CHAPTER XVI THE TRUFFLE-HUNTING BEETLE
- 18.CHAPTER XVII THE BOY WHO LOVED INSECTS
- 19.CHAPTER XVIII THE BANDED SPIDER — THE NEST — THE BANDED SPIDER’S FAMILY
- 20.CHAPTER XIX THE TARANTULA — A FIGHT WITH A CARPENTER-BEE — THE TARANTULA’S POISON — THE TARANTULA’S HUNTING — THE TARANTULA’S BAG — THE TARANTULA’S BABIES — A MEAL OF SUNSHINE — THE FLIGHT OF THE BABY TARANTULAS
- 21.CHAPTER XX THE CLOTHO SPIDER
- 22.CHAPTER XXI THE SPIDER’S TELEGRAPH-WIRE
- 23.CHAPTER XXII THE CRAB-SPIDER — THE CRAB-SPIDER’S NEST — THE YOUNG CRAB-SPIDERS
- 24.CHAPTER XXIII THE LABYRINTH SPIDER
- 25.CHAPTER XXIV THE BUILDING OF A SPIDER’S WEB — THE STICKY SNARE
- 26.CHAPTER XXV THE GEOMETRY OF THE SPIDER’S WEB — INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes
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