Gathering his essays on the wasps that build homes rather than dig burrows, this volume follows Fabre into his harmas in Provence. He studies the potter Eumenes with its clay jars, the Odyneri, and the Pelopaeus that moves into houses and stocks its cells with spiders, and asks hard questions about instinct and discernment.
Patient, witty observation from the naturalist Darwin called an inimitable observer, in Teixeira de Mattos’s translation. Download the free EPUB.