Small Wonders: Jean-Henri Fabre and His World of Insects by Matthew Clark Smith botany From the editor of the

From the editor of the nation's premier birding magazine

They collect wild mushrooms and blueberries and shelter under toadstools when it rains

you build and maintain food webs in diverse biomes around the world

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Small Wonders: Jean-Henri Fabre and His World of Insects by Matthew Clark Smith botany From the editor of theA moth with a sixth sense. A wasp that hunts beetles nearly twice its size. The lives of fascinating creatures such as these were unknown until one man introduced them to the world. Meet Jean Henri Fabre, one of the most important naturalists of all time. As a boy in the French countryside, Henri spent hours watching insects. He dreamed of observing them in a new way: in their own habitats. What he discovered in pursuing that dream was shocking; these