A stroll in the meadow -- The insect empire -- Chez les newts -- Mating wheels and sexual cannibalism -- Filthy flies -- The secret life of the meadow brown -- Paper wasps and drifting bees -- The mating habits of the death-watch beetle -- The true bugs -- Hothouse flowers -- Robbing rattle -- Smutty campions -- The disappearing bees -- The inbred isles -- Easter Island.
Summary
The author discusses the lives of the many insects and plants living on his farm in rural France.
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