Has material on hornets.

Presents the life story of the hunting wasp and classifies according to their prey.

Hunting Wasps by J. Henri Fabre Quality Paperback 1-58776-028-2 List Price: $16.00 "Fabre is the Homer of the insects." - Victor Hugo. "Fabre is one of the glories of the civilized world... one of the most profound admirations of my life." - Maurice Maeterlinck. "Fabre is a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." - Rostand. "Fabre has the power to introduce the reader into the insect world as few if any others have been able to do." - New York Herald Tribune. "In the field of insect study, the works of J. Henry Fabre are classics; in the field of literature, they hold a special place of their own." - Edwin Way Teale

Excerpt from The Hunting Wasps Henri Fabre's essays on Wasps will fill three volumes in all, of which this is the first. The others will be entitled The Mason-Wasps and More Hunting Wasps. The former will include the chapters on the Common or Social Wasp. The first seventeen chapters of the present book appeared some years ago, wholly or in part, in a version of Vol. I of the Souvenirs Entomologiques prepared by the author of Mademoiselle Mori for Messrs. Macmillan & Co., by arrangement with whom i am now permitted to retranslate and republish them for the purpose of this collected and definite edition of Fabre's entomological works. Of the remainder, The Modern Theory of Instinct first saw the light in The English Review and An Unknown Sense, in an abbreviated form, in The Daily Mail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Hunting Wasps by J. Henri Fabre Quality Paperback 1-58776-028-2 List Price: $16.00 "Fabre is the Homer of the insects." - Victor Hugo. "Fabre is one of the glories of the civilized world... one of the most profound admirations of my life." - Maurice Maeterlinck. "Fabre is a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." - Rostand. "Fabre has the power to introduce the reader into the insect world as few if any others have been able to do." - New York Herald Tribune. "In the field of insect study, the works of J. Henry Fabre are classics; in the field of literature, they hold a special place of their own." - Edwin Way Teale