Fabre spent years watching the caterpillars around his Provençal home, and this volume gathers all fourteen of his essays on butterflies, moths and their larvae. He follows the pine processionary from egg to nest to its famous head-to-tail marches, tests its stinging power, and studies the case-bearing caterpillars and the great peacock moth’s sense of smell.
Patient experiment and lively prose from the naturalist Darwin called an inimitable observer. Download the free EPUB.