The Life of the Caterpillar

Adder, 120

Anisotoma cinnamomea, 307

Ant, 51n, 52, 322

Arbutus Caterpillar, 150–160, 172–173

Arbutus Liparis (see Arbutus Caterpillar)

Aristotle, 58

Ass, 73–74

Attacus pavonia minor (see Lesser Peacock Moth)

Bacon-beetle (see Dermestes)

Banded Monk, 278–299, 326–330

Bat, 248, 301

Bee, 51n, 147–148, 162, 183

Beetle (see also the varieties), 20

Bembex, 115

Blackbird, 151

Bolboceras gallicus, 309, 312–319, 326

Bombyx (see Arbutus Caterpillar, Banded Monk, Neustrian Bombyx, Pine Processionary)

Brown Owl, 250

Brush Caterpillar (see Orgyia)

Bull-pup, 257

Buridan, Jean, 73

Burying-beetle (see also Necrophorus), 319

Butterfly (see also the varieties), 182, 227

Cabbage-caterpillar, 172, 334–362, 365–371

Calosoma sychophanta, 94, 168

Carrier-pigeon, 301

Carrion-beetle (see Silpha)

Cat, 108

Century Co., 7

Cetonia floricola, 182–183

Chalicodoma (see also Mason-bee of the Sheds), 301

Chelonia caja (see Hedgehog Caterpillar)

Cicada, 10, 43

Cock, 108

Common Fly (see Fly)

Cricket, 43

Cuckoo, 94, 168

Death’s-head Moth, 172

Dermestes (see also the varieties below), 319–325, 328

Dermestes Frischii, 323

Dermestes pardalis, 323 [374]

Dermestes undulatus, 323

Dioscorides Pedanius, 148

Dog, 100, 301, 308, 314–315, 318, 320, 324–327

Donkey (see Ass)

Dor-beetle (see Geotrupes)

Dung-beetle (see also the varieties), 309

Earth-worm, 50

Earwig, 322

Eider, 212

Elm Tortoiseshell (see Great Tortoiseshell Butterfly)

Fabre, Paul, the author’s son, 21, 136–138, 247–248, 275

Field-mouse, 301, 320

Fly, 195, 324, 355

Geotrupes, 107, 310

Gnat, 355–356

Goldfinch, 185

Grasshopper (see also Vine Ephippiger), 10n

Great Grey Locust, 184

Great Peacock Moth, 41–42, 172, 181–182, 226, 246–274, 277, 280, 282–283, 285, 287–289, 298, 326–330

Great Tortoiseshell Butterfly, 172, 177–181

Green Saw-fly, 183

Ground-beetle, 50

Guinea-fowl, 108

Guinea-pig, 180–181

Heath Fritillary, 172

Hedgehog, 320

Hedgehog Caterpillar, 135–136, 141, 174

Hen, 108

Hive-bee, 52–53

Honey-bee (see Bee)

Horse, 346–348

Hunting Wasp (see Wasp)

Ichneumon-fly, 51n

Jay, 310

Large Cabbage Butterfly, Large White Butterfly (see Cabbage-Caterpillar)

Larinus, 338

Lesser Peacock Moth, 273–278

Liparis (see also Arbutus Caterpillar, L. auriflua), 173

Liparis auriflua, 150

Livery (see Neustrian Bombyx)

Lizard, 320

Locust (see also Great Grey Locust), 43n [375]

Magpie, 310

Mantis (see Praying Mantis)

Mare, 346

Mason-bee of the Sheds (see also Chalicodoma), 51–53

Mason-wasp, 41n

Miall, Bernard, 7, 10n

Microgaster glomeratus, 353–371

Midge, 355–356

Minotaurus typhœus, 311–312

Mole, 318, 320, 324–326

Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 147

Monk (see Banded Monk)

Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de), 220

Moth (see also the varieties), 177, 182, 212

Necrophorus (see also N. vestigator), 319, 324–326, 328

Necrophorus vestigator, 324

Neustrian Bombyx, 21

Oak Bombyx, Oak Eggar (see Banded Monk)

Oak Processionary, 135, 168, 173

Orgyia, 137–139, 141

Owl (see Brown Owl)

Patte étendue (see Orgyia)

Phidias, 18

Pieris brassicæ (see Cabbage-caterpillar)

Pig, 307

Pine Bombyx (see Pine Processionary)

Pine Processionary, 1–148, 150, 157, 159, 161–170, 173–176, 179, 181–182, 184, 300

Plato, 20, 56

Pliny the Elder, 346–347

Praying Mantis, 43, 285–286

Processionary, Processionary Caterpillar, Processionary Moth (see Oak Processionary, Pine Processionary)

Psyche (see also the varieties below), 186–244

Psyche comitella, 194–202, 214–216

Psyche febretta, 192, 214

Psyche graminella (see P. unicolor)

Psyche intermediella (see P. comitella)

Psyche unicolor, 186–191, 204–216

Puss-moth, 172

Pythagoras, 19

Rabbit, 212, 279, 310.

Rabelais, François, 58 [376]

Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de, 9–10, 12–15, 26, 90, 95, 120–132, 135

Rodwell, Miss Frances, 8

Saprinus (see also the varieties below), 320–325, 328

Saprinus æneus, 323

Saprinus detersus, 323

Saprinus maculatus, 323

Saprinus semipunctatus, 323

Saprinus speculifer, 323

Saprinus subnitidus, 323

Sapromyzon, 307–309

Saw-fly (see also Green Saw-fly), 51n

Scatophaga scybalaria, 307

Silk-moth (see Silkworm)

Silkworm, 125, 170–172, 175–176, 181–182, 264

Silpha (see also the varieties below), 319, 324

Silpha obscura, 324

Silpha rugosa, 324

Silpha sinuata, 324

Snail, 96

Spallanzani, Lazaro, 301

Spanish Copris, 309

Spider, 40

Spurge Hawk-moth, 172

Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 51n, 99n, 107n, 303n

Termite, 53

Tiger-moth, 172

Toad, 320

Tree-frog, 108

Turkey, 303

Vanessa polychloris (see Great Tortoiseshell Butterfly)

Vine Ephippiger, 184

Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, 17

Wasp, 51n, 52, 147–148, 162, 183

White Ant (see Termite)

Wood-louse, 322