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]