Life of the Spider

Author(s)

• Jean-Henri Fabre

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras. In 1852, he taught at the lycée in Avignon. (Summary from Wikipedia)

1. The Black-Bellied Tarantula
2. The Banded Epeira
3. The Narbonne Lycosa
4. The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow
5. The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family
6. The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing-instinct
7. The Spiders’ Exodus
8. The Crab Spider
9. The Garden Spiders: Building The Web
10. The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour
11. The Garden Spiders: The Lime-snare
12. The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph-wire
13. The Garden Spiders: Pairing And Hunting
14. The Garden Spiders: The Question Of Property
15. The Labyrinth Spider
16. The Clotho Spider
17. Appendix: The Geometry Of The Epeira’s Web