10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCESSIONARIES»
Discover the use of
processionaries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
processionaries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
Processionaries got their name because of their distinctive behavior. When they
leave their nests to forage for food, they travel in a line, like elephants in a circus,
head to tail, head to tail. The lead caterpillar spins a fine trail of silk as it crawls ...
2
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I. Henri Fabre's pine processionaries speak to the same point. Although the new
studies show that some insects can on occasion strike out into new territory,
leaving instinct behind, still a blindered and blinkered enslavement to instinct is
the ...
3
The Story Book of Science
Following it, others place themselves, not oneafter another, likethe
processionaries of the pine, but in rows of two, three, four, and more.The troop,
completed, begins to moveinobedience to the evolutions of itsfileleader, which
always marches ...
4
A Country Year: Living the Questions
of his famous experiments with pine processionaries, one of the
Thaumatopoeidae. Fahre's caterpillars were Thaumatopoea proces- sionea, "the
wonder maker that parades"; eventually they become rather undistinguished-
looking moths The ...
The Processionaries, with their unsophisticated traffic-laws, are very different
from the Mason-bees and others, who have a special sense to guide them. The
Amazon, though belonging to the Hymenopteron clan, herself possesses rather ...
6
Inward Purity and Outward Splendour: Death and Remembrance ...
... tropers with grails and ordinals with other books for convenience and economy
.24 Crat®eld possessed six processionaries which contained music for anthems
and responses sung in procession before Mass, at Rogationtide, and on feast ...
Judith Middleton-Stewart, 2001
7
Effective reading: methods and models
Please read as carefully as you can Fabre's essay "The Processionaries," which
follows on the next few pages. You will have little trouble picking out the few
mechanical reading-helps, nor is the language very difficult. But concentrate ...
Macha Louis Rosenthal, William Castle Hummel, Verdun Erle Leichty, 1944
8
Earthworms Through the Ages: The Wisdom of Alexander Botts
The important point was that the Pine Processionaries' normal mode of travel was
the same as Colonel Daggett's system for getting his tractors through the woods.
And what Monsieur Fabre so aptly calls the "inconceivable imbecility" and ...
William Hazlett Upson, 1947
This is why they are called Processionaries. Many caterpillars, when they are
very young, live together inside a web, but in these cases the web is spun all over
the leaves which they feed upon, and by the time that these leaves are eaten up,
...
The leader of these " processionaries," as they are called, does not seem to differ
from the rest of its companions either in size, shape, or colour; nor does there
seem to be a natural leader. The first that happens to quit the nest appears, from
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROCESSIONARIES»
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processionaries is used in the context of the following news items.
Here's A Weirdly Inspirational Story Of Caterpillar Torture
(Actually, the Pine Processionaries follow each other's scent, not the silk.) Once the caterpillars had looped around the rim of the pot, and come ... «io9, Jun 14»
Toxic caterpillars on the march, experts warn
People are being warned to stay away from the insects, called oak processionaries, and get medical help if they come into contact with them. «Metro, Jul 12»
