Jean-Henri Fabre - The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

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Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), author of La Psychologie du goût . — Translator's Note .

Cf. The Hunting Wasps , by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: passim . — Translator's Note .

.195 inch. — Translator's Note .

Cf. The Mason-bees , by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. viii.; and Bramble-bees and Others , by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: passim . — Translator's Note .

Cf. The Mason-wasps , by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. vi. and x. — Translator's Note .

Cf. The Life of the Fly , by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. ii. and iv. — Translator's Note .

Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: passim . — Translator's Note .

Mites and Ticks. — Translator's Note .

A genus of Beetles of which certain species ( Clerus apiarius and C. alvearius ) pass their preparatory state in the nests of Bees, where they feed on the grubs. — Translator's Note .

Another genus of Beetles. The grub of A. musæorum , the Museum Beetle, is very destructive to insect-collections. — Translator's Note .

.026 inch. — Translator's Note .

Fabre, as a young man, was a master at Avignon College. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chaps. xii., xiii., xix. and xx. — Translator's Note .

Jean Marie Léon Dufour (1780-1865), an army surgeon who served with distinction in several campaigns, and subsequently practised as a doctor in the Landes, where he attained great eminence as a naturalist. Fabre often refers to him as the Wizard of the Landes. Cf. The Life of the Spider , by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. i.; and The Life of the Fly: chap. i. — Translator's Note .

A genus of Burrowing Bee, the most numerous in species among the British Bees. — Translator's Note .

George Newport (1803-1854), an English surgeon and naturalist, president of the Entomological Society from 1844 to 1845 and an expert in insect anatomy. — Translator's Note .

Thursday is the weekly holiday in French schools. — Translator's Note .

Carolus Linnæus (Karl von Linné, 1707-1778), the celebrated Swedish botanist and naturalist, founder of the Linnæan system of classification. — Translator's Note .

Jean Baptiste Godart (1775-1823), the principal editor of L'Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères de France . — Translator's Note .

Baron Karl de Geer (1720-1778), the Swedish entomologist, author of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes (1752-1778). — Translator's Note .

Cf. The Mason-bees: chaps. viii. and ix. — Translator's Note .

For the Wasp known as the Hairy Ammophila, who feeds her young on the Grey Worm, the caterpillar of the Turnip Moth, cf. The Hunting Wasps , chaps. xviii. to xx. — Translator's Note .