Social Life in the Insect World
by Jean-Henri Fabre
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915
- Credits
- Produced by Louise Pryor, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Insects -- Behavior
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 18350
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18350
- Release Date
- May 8, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SOCIAL LIFE — IN THE INSECT WORLD — BY
- 2.J. H. FABRE — Translated by — BERNARD MIALL — WITH 14 ILLUSTRATIONS
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — SOCIAL LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD
- 5.CHAPTER I — THE FABLE OF THE CIGALE AND THE ANT — DURING THE DROUGHTS OF SUMMER THIRSTING INSECTS, AND NOTABLY THE ANT, FLOCK TO THE DRINKING-PLACES OF THE CIGALE.
- 6.CHAPTER II — THE CIGALE LEAVES ITS BURROW — THE CIGALE AND THE EMPTY PUPA-SKIN.
- 7.CHAPTER III — THE SONG OF THE CIGALE
- 8.CHAPTER IV — THE CIGALE. THE EGGS AND THEIR HATCHING
- 9.CHAPTER V — THE MANTIS.—THE CHASE
- 10.CHAPTER VI — THE MANTIS.—COURTSHIP
- 11.CHAPTER VII — THE MANTIS.—THE NEST
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — THE GOLDEN GARDENER.—ITS NUTRIMENT
- 13.CHAPTER IX — THE GOLDEN GARDENER—COURTSHIP
- 14.CHAPTER X — THE FIELD-CRICKET
- 15.CHAPTER XI — THE ITALIAN CRICKET
- 16.CHAPTER XII — THE SISYPHUS BEETLE.—THE INSTINCT OF PATERNITY
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — A BEE-HUNTER: THE PHILANTHUS AVIPORUS
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — THE GREAT PEACOCK, OR EMPEROR MOTH
- 19.CHAPTER XV — THE OAK EGGAR, OR BANDED MONK
- 20.CHAPTER XVI — A TRUFFLE-HUNTER: THE BOLBOCERAS GALLICUS
- 21.CHAPTER XVII — THE ELEPHANT-BEETLE
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII — THE PEA-WEEVIL— BRUCHUS PISI
- 23.CHAPTER XIX — AN INVADER.—THE HARICOT-WEEVIL
- 24.CHAPTER XX — THE GREY LOCUST
- 25.CHAPTER XXI — THE PINE-CHAFER
- 26.INDEX
- 27.FOOTNOTES:
- 28.FABRE: POET OF SCIENCE — By G. V. LEGROS
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