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Fabres, French entomologist and popular science writer.
1823 65438+February, Fabres was born in a poor peasant's home in the south of France. When he was in primary school, he often went to the countryside, and his pockets were full of snails, mushrooms or other plants and insects. Fabres 15 years old was admitted to normal school. After graduation, she got the position of junior high school math teacher. He spent a month's salary, bought a book on entomology, and decided to be a person who wrote history for insects. Through self-study, Fables obtained a bachelor's degree in physical mathematics and a bachelor's degree in natural science two years later. Another year passed, and at the age of 365,438+0, Fabres received a doctor's degree in natural science. Later, he published a series of works, such as "Sky, Earth, Plants" and "Uncle Paul talks about pests". 1875, fabrice led his family to move to a rural town. The first volume of entomology, written after sorting out the data for more than 20 years, was published in 1879. 1880, Fabres bought an old house with the money he saved. He used the local Provencal language to give the house a nickname-Waste Stone Garden. Year after year, the owner of the "Waste Stone Garden" wears a farmer's woolen coat and digs and digs with a sharp pick and a flat shovel, thus an insect paradise is built. He wrote the fruits of his labor into volume after volume of Insects. 19 10, the tenth volume of Insects was published, and Fabres was 86 years old.