The Life of the Caterpillar (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

J. Henri Fabre

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ISBN 10: 0260214817 ISBN 13: 9780260214812

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Life of the Caterpillar

This caterpillar has already had his story told by Réaumur,1 but it was a story marked by gaps. These were inevitable in the conditions under which the great man worked, for he had to receive all his mate rials by barge from the distant Bordeaux Landes. The transplanted insect could not be expected to furnish its biographer with other than fragmentary evidence, very weak in those biological details which form the principal charm of entomology. To study the habits of insects one must observe them long and closely on their native heath, so to speak, in the place where their instincts have full and natural play.

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