Alexander Teixeira de Mattos gathers Jean-Henri Fabre’s essays on wild bees from the Souvenirs entomologiques. Fabre watches Osmiae nesting in bramble stems and reed tubes, settles into old mason-bee galleries, and through patient experiments shows that the mother decides the sex of each egg she lays, before turning to instinct, economy of effort and the Halicti.
Fabre at his most inquisitive, ideal for naturalists and anyone who enjoys science told as a story. Download the free EPUB.