![]() Fabre describes the legendary mating habits of the praying mantis wherein the female eats the male after coupling: "In the course of two weeks I have seen the same Mantis treat seven husbands in this fashion. Social Life in the Insect World reads like an insect soap opera. But Fabre, a former teacher, was not writing for them - he was writing for young people "to make them love natural history the way scientists make them hate it." ![]() His self-published series Souvenirs Entomologiques enjoyed widespread recognition when he was well into his 80s and his passionate observations of the natural world soon gained him the respect of Darwin, Pasteur, Mallarmé, and other notable scientists of the time. ![]() Known as the Poet of Science, the Homer of Insects, Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1823–1915), a French self-trained entomologist, is known for popularizing insect natural history through lyrical anthropomorphized descriptions of their behavior. Reissued in paperback by University Press of the Pacific, 2002 Translated from the French by Bernard Miall Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre, Social Life in the Insect World
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