Jean-Henri Fabre

PD-US

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The Fable of the Cigale and the Ant; The Cigale Leaves its Burrow; The Song of the Cigale; The Cigale. The Eggs and Their Hatching; The Mantis.-The Chase; The Mantis.-Courtship; The Mantis.-The Nest; The Golden Gardener.-Its Nutriment; The Golden Gardener-Courtship; The Field-cricket; The Italian Cricket; The Sisyphus Beetle.-The Instinct of Paternity; A Bee-hunter: the Philanthus Aviporus; The Great Peacock, or Emperor Moth; The Oak Eggar, or Banded Monk; A Truffle-hunter: the Bolboceras Gallicus; The Elephant-Beetle.