"The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects" by Jean-Henri Fabre (translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Bernard Miall). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Fabre Jean-Henri. The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
Table of Contents
THE WONDERS OF INSTINCT
CHAPTER 1. THE HARMAS
CHAPTER 2. THE GREEN GRASSHOPPER
CHAPTER 3. THE EMPUSA
CHAPTER 4. THE CAPRICORN
CHAPTER 5. THE BURYING-BEETLES: THE BURIAL
CHAPTER 6. THE BURYING-BEETLES: EXPERIMENTS
CHAPTER 7. THE BLUEBOTTLE
CHAPTER 8. THE PINE-PROCESSIONARY
CHAPTER 9. THE SPIDERS
CHAPTER 10. THE BANDED EPEIRA
CHAPTER 11. THE EUMENES
CHAPTER 12. THE OSMIAE
CHAPTER 13. THE GLOW-WORM
CHAPTER 14. THE CABBAGE-CATERPILLAR
INDEX
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Jean-Henri Fabre
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I offer the prisoners a leaf of lettuce. They bite into it, certainly, but very sparingly and with a scornful tooth. It soon becomes plain that I am dealing with half-hearted vegetarians. They want something else: they are beasts of prey, apparently. But what manner of prey? A lucky chance taught me.
At break of day I was pacing up and down outside my door, when something fell from the nearest plane-tree with a shrill grating sound. I ran up and saw a Grasshopper gutting the belly of a struggling Cicada. In vain the victim buzzed and waved his limbs: the other did not let go, dipping her head right into the entrails and rooting them out by small mouthfuls.
