The Fabulous Insects: Essays by the Foremost Nature Writers

by Charles Neider (Editor)

From spiders that lasso their prey to ants that kill elephants, these 24 essays discuss a wide variety of insects and arachnids: dragonflies, wasps, walking sticks, emperor moths, cicadas, beetles, butterflies, honey bees, and the praying mantis. Contributors include Jean Henri Fabre, Donald Culross Peattie, William Beebe, Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, Pulitzer Prize-winner Edwin Way Teale, and others.

Genres: Nature, Science

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Charles Neider was an American writer, known for editing the Autobiography of Mark Twain and authoring literary impressions of Antarctica.

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read so many nature essay books now! It was totally worth having phantom creepy-crawly feelings every time I read this book on the bus or train, and by the end I wasn't totally imagining that the terrifying ants described in the essay about elephant-eating ants were crawling all over me.