An early English selection from Fabre’s Souvenirs entomologiques, introduced as the work of a naturalist second only to Réaumur. Fabre watches the sacred beetle roll its ball of dung, studies the Cerceris wasp that paralyses beetles with uncanny precision, and describes his enclosure of waste ground in Provence.
Patient, delightful observation from the most readable of all writers on insects. Download the free EPUB.