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Fabre's Book of Insects (Paperback)
$9.95 - Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Fabre's Book of InsectsBeautiful, simply written observations about the beetle, cicada, praying mantis, glow-worm, wasp, grub, cricket, locust and other creatures, describing how they hunt, build nests, feed families, and more.
Full description- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
- Published: 01 November 1998
- Format: Paperback 168 pages
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- Categories: Insects (entomology) | Natural History | Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders
- ISBN 13: 9780486401522 ISBN 10: 0486401529
- Sales rank: 125,734
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Full description for Fabre's Book of Insects
This volume, based on translations of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques, " blends folklore and mythology with factual explanation. Fabre's absorbing account of the scarab beetle's existence, for example, begins with the ancient Egyptians' symbolic view of this busy creature, eventually leading to a careful discussion of its characteristic method of rolling a carefully sculpted ball of food to its den. Elsewhere, he discusses with infectious enthusiasm the physiologic secrets behind the luminosity of fireflies, the musical talents of the locust, the comfortable home of the field cricket, and the cannibalism of the pious-looking praying mantis, among other topics.
