  CHAPTER IV BEES, CATS AND RED ANTS CHAPTER VI THE LEAF-CUTTING BEE CHAPTER VII THE COTTON-BEES AND RESIN-BEES CHAPTER VIII THE HAIRY SAND-WASPS CHAPTER IX THE WASP AND THE CRICKET CHAPTER X THE FLY-HUNTING WASP CHAPTER XIII THE PINE CATERPILLAR CHAPTER XIV THE CABBAGE-CATERPILLAR CHAPTER XV THE GREAT PEACOCK MOTH CHAPTER XVI THE TRUFFLE-HUNTING BEETLE CHAPTER XVII THE BOY WHO LOVED INSECTS CHAPTER XVIII THE BANDED SPIDER CHAPTER XXI THE SPIDER'S TELEGRAPH-WIRE CHAPTER XXIII THE LABYRINTH SPIDER CHAPTER XXIV THE BUILDING OF A SPIDER'S WEB CHAPTER XXV THE GEOMETRY OF THE SPIDER'S WEB INSECT ADVENTURES Petty truths, I shall be told, those presented by the habits of a spider or a grasshopper. There are no petty truths today; there is but one truth, whose looking-glass to our uncertain eyes seems broken, though its every fragment, whether reflecting the evolution of a planet or the flight of a bee, contains the supreme law. Maurice Maeterlinck “What a day it was when I first became a herdsman of ducks!” INSECT ADVENTURESSelections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques” RETOLD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ILLUSTRATED BY colophon NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1917, |
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