Insect Adventures

by Jean-Henri Fabre; Louise Hasbrouck Zimm

INDEX

• Angular Spider, web of, [269], [274-275]
• Ants, battle between Red and Black, [59-60]
  • habits of Red, or Amazon,
  • [58-59]
  • sense of direction of, [60-61]

• Banded Spider, eggs and young of, [207-208]
  • hunting habits and prey of, [199-203]
  • nest of, [203-206]
  • telegraph wire of, [242-247]
• Bees, Carpenter, prey of Tarantula, [214-215]
  • Cotton, [85-88]
  • Dioxys, [47]
  • doorkeeping, [69-77]
  • Gnats as enemies of, [67-69]
  • home-finding instinct of, [49-50]
  • Leaf-cutting, [47], [78-84], [86]
  • Mason, [37-46]
  • Osmia, [47]
  • Resin, [89-92]
  • victims of Crab-spider, [248-249]
  • Zebra, [62-77]
• Beetles, Hoplia, [192]
  • Truffle-hunting, [171-176]
  • usefulness of, about Bees’ houses, [47-48]
• Birds, sense of direction of, [57-58]
• Bluebottle Flies, as scavengers, [134]
• Bumble-bee, prey of Tarantula, [211-212]
• Butterfly, hunted by Banded Spider, [200]

• Cabbage-caterpillars, [161-166]
• Caddis-worms, [17]
  • study of, [31-32]
  • use of defensive sheath by, [33-34]
  • viewed as insect submarine, [35-36]
• Carpenter-bee, fight between Tarantula and, [214-215]
• Caterpillars, Cabbage, [161-166]
  • Pine, [135-160]
  • prey of Hairy Sand-wasp, [95-105]
• Cats, home-finding instinct of, [52-57]
  • study of, [51-52]
• Clotho Spider, food of, [239]
  • habits of, [239-241]
  • home of, [236-239]
  • origin of name, [236]
• Crab-spider, described, [249-250]
  • eggs of, [251-252]
  • hunting practices of, [248-249]
  • nest of, [251-252]
  • young of, [253-256]
• Crickets, prey of Yellow-winged Wasps, [106-112]

• Dioxys-bee, [47]
• Dog, truffle-hunting by, [171-173]
• Doorkeeping Bees, [69-77]
• Dragon-flies, [18]
  • prey of Banded Spider, [200]

• Flesh-flies, Gray, as scavengers, [134]
• Flies, as prey of Wasps, [113-118]
  • Bombylii, as parasites, [130-131]
  • scavenger work done by, [133-134]
  • Wasps preyed on by, [120-123], [131]

• Gad-flies, hunted by Wasps, [113-118]
• Geometry of Spider’s web, [276-283]
• Glass pond, described, [28-30]
• Gnats, as enemies of Bees, [67-69]
  • Cabbage-caterpillar victim of, [165-166]
• Grasshoppers, prey of Banded Spider, [200]
  • prey of Tarantula, [213]
• Gray Worm, hunting of, by Hairy Sand-wasp, [95-105]
• Great Peacock Moth, [167-170]
• Greenbottle Flies, as scavengers, [133-134]

• Honey, of Cotton-bees, [88]
  • of Mason-bees, [37-38]

• Instinct in animals compared with genius in men, [197-198]

• Labyrinth Spider, habits of, [264-265]
  • nest of, [260-264]
  • web of, [259-260]
  • young of, [264-265]
• Leeches, in pond, [18]
• Locust, prey of Banded Spider, [201-203]

• Microgaster, enemy of Cabbage-caterpillar, [165-166]
• Midge, Cabbage-caterpillar preyed on by, [165-166]
• Mole, effect of Tarantula’s poison on, [217-218]
• Mollusk, curve of shell of, [278-280]
• Mosquitoes, grubs of, [18]
• Moths, Great Peacock, [167-170]
  • Pine, [157-160]

• Nautilus, curve of shell of, [278-280]
• Newt, orange-bellied, in pond, [17]

• Parasites, insect, [125-132]
• Pigeons, home-finding instinct of, [57]
• Pine Caterpillars, [135-160]
  • cocoons and moths of, [157-160]
  • eggs of, [136-138]
  • habits of, [141-144]
  • procession habit of, [145-153]
  • weather prophesied by, [154-156]
  • winter homes of, [141]
  • young of, [138-140]
• Pond, studies in a, [17-30]
• Pond-skaters, [17]
• Processionaries, Pine Caterpillars called, [136]
  • study of, [145-153]

• River-snails, found in pond, [18]

• Scavengers, Flies as, [133-134]
• School, account of early, [182-194]
• Shellfish, varieties of, in pond, [18]
• Silky Spider, telegraph wire of, [242-247]
• Snails, pond and river, [18]
• Sparrow, effect of Tarantula’s poison on, [216-217]
• Spiders, Angular, [269]
  • Banded, [199-208], [269]
  • Bird, [257], [258]
  • Clotho, [236-241]
  • Crab, [248-256]
  • Garden, [272]
  • Labyrinth, [257-265]
  • poisonous qualities of, [209]
  • Silky, [269]
  • Tarantula, [209-235]
  • telegraph wire of, [242-247]
  • Water, [258]
  • web building by, [266-283]
• Stelis-wasp, as enemy of Mason-bee, [43-44]

• Tadpoles, in pond, [17], [22]
• Tarantula, American, [257], [258]
  • Black-bellied, [210]
  • description of, [210]
  • eggs and young of, [221-232]
  • fight with Carpenter-bee described, [214-215]
  • flight of young, [232-235]
  • food of young, [228-232]
  • home of, [210-211]
  • hunting methods of, [211-214], [218-220]
  • poison of, [216-218]
• Truffle-hunters, [171-176]

• Wasps, Fly-hunting, [113-124]
  • Golden, as parasites, [128-130]
  • Hairy Sand, [93-105]
  • hunting of Crickets by Yellow-winged, [106-112]
  • hunting practices contrasted with Tarantula’s, [218]
  • Mutilla, [126-128]
  • preyed on by Flies, [120-123]
  • Stelis, as enemies of Mason-bee, [43-44]
• Water-beetles, in pond, [17]
  • escape of Caddis-worms from, [33-34]
• Water-boatmen, [18]
• Water-scorpions, [18]
• Weather prophets, Pine Caterpillars as, [154-156]
• Web, building of Spider’s, [266-275]
  • geometry of Spider’s, [276-283]
• Weeds, decomposition of, in stagnant water, [29-30]
• Whirligigs, in pond, [17]

• Zebra Bees, appearance of, [62]
  • doorkeeping by, described, [69-77]
  • eggs and young of, [66-67], [69-70]
  • Gnat enemy of, [67-69]
  • homes of, [62-65]