Amid the ruins that surround me, one strip of wall remains standing, immovable upon its solid base: my passion for scientific truth.

The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography by Jean-Henri Fabre is part of the HackerNoon Books Series.

The length of the full sized larva is 15 to 20 millimeters and its breadth 5 to 6.

The interest lies in the maneuvers of the insect, which I am able to follow under the most favorable conditions.

The insect's assiduous attendance upon the same slope is caused by the inexhaustible wealth of the locality exploited.

I, a humble journeyman in the toilers' hive, am therefore very poor in family recollections.

The heterogeneous collection is piled up anyhow.

The language of science knows her as Sarcophaga, the flesh eater; in the vulgar tongue she is the grey flesh fly, or simply the flesh fly.

She is a gorgeous and powerful fly; and her costume, with its brown and yellow bands, shows a vague resemblance to that of the wasps.

I crush in a few drops of water a joint of the tail taken from the front portion, far from the poison glands

A miller has bethought him of putting the brook, which used to flow so gaily through the fields, to work.

It is superfluous to continue this method of investigation: the reply would be everywhere the same.