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The Life of the Spider

by Jean-Henri Fabre

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  1. The Black-Bellied Tarantula

    49:11

  2. The Banded Epeira

    32:49

  3. The Narbonne Lycosa

    22:35

  4. The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow

    46:38

  5. The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family

    19:22

  6. The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing-instinct

    16:30

  7. The Spiders’ Exodus

    27:58

  8. The Crab Spider

    20:10

  9. The Garden Spiders: Building The Web

    23:44

  10. The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour

    43:35

  11. The Garden Spiders: The Lime-snare

    13:05

  12. The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph-wire

    15:30

  13. The Garden Spiders: Pairing And Hunting

    36:26

  14. The Garden Spiders: The Question Of Property

    15:02

  15. The Labyrinth Spider

    37:21

  16. The Clotho Spider

    24:45

  17. Appendix: The Geometry Of The Epeira’s Web

    19:45

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A spider's burrow becomes a piece of engineering under Jean-Henri Fabre's close scrutiny. Beginning with the Black-bellied Tarantula, this natural history book examines hunting habits, shelters and the beliefs that make spiders objects of fear. Fabre sets accounts of alarming bites beside his interest in instinct, and includes Léon Dufour's detailed description of a tunnel with a bend, a raised entrance and a silken lining.

Later observations turn to the care of eggs and young. Fabre tests a mother spider's response to an artificial nest, watches a mother guarding her brood, and follows the young as they gather among twigs and begin laying threads between objects. The appeal lies in the scale of the investigation: small movements become evidence about behaviour. Readers can follow the questions and practical experiments of an observer trying to understand how spiders build, hunt and rear their offspring.

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Jean-Henri Fabre

Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was a French naturalist and teacher celebrated for his patient, first-hand studies of insects. His multi-volume 'Souvenirs entomologiques' won him wide admiration, and he wrote many clear, engaging science books to bring the natural world to ordinary readers and children.

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