The Life of the Caterpillar

by J. Henri Fabre

translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

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Copyright, 1916, by DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.

Introduction [not reproduced here] copyrighted, 1925, by BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

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CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION [not reproduced here] i

1. I. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY:THE EGGS AND THE HATCHING 9
2. II. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE NEST; THE COMMUNITY 27
3. III. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE PROCESSION 56
4. IV. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: METEOROLOGY 90
5. V. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE MOTH 111
6. VI. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE STINGING POWER 128
7. VII. THE ARBUTUS CATERPILLAR 150
8. VIII. AN INSECT VIRUS 161
9. IX. THE PSYCHES: THE LAYING 186
10. X. THE PSYCHES: THE CASES 217
11. XI. THE GREAT PEACOCK 246
12. XII. THE BANDED MONK 279
13. XIII. THE SENSE OF SMELL 300
14. XIV. THE CABBAGE-CATERPILLAR 331
15. INDEX. [not reproduced here] 373

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