# Animal Life in Field and Garden Author: Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Bicknell, Florence Constable, 1858-1941 [Translator] Genre: Category: Science - Biology Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66755 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Animal+Life+in+Field+and+Garden+Fabre&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary “In these talks that we shall have together,” said Uncle Paul, as he sat with his nephews one evening in May under the big elder tree in the garden, “I propose to designate as ‘friends’ those forms of animal life that, though not domesticated or cared for by us, nevertheless come to our aid by waging war on insects and various other devouring creatures which would in the end, unless their excessive multiplication were kept in restraint by others besides ourselves, eat up all our crops and lay waste our fields; and it is these ravagers of the farmer’s carefully tilled acres that I shall speak of as ‘foes.’ ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XXXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/48/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/43/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER LIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/54/index.md) - [CHAPTER LII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/52/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER XL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/40/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/49/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/47/index.md) - [CHAPTER LI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/51/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/45/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/46/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER L](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/50/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER LIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/53/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/animal-life-in-field-and-garden-66755/chapters/1/index.md)