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Without getting too muddy, I played around in this couple acre mud pit for quite a while on various jumps and mud crawls. Before you chastize me for NOT GETTING MUDDY, remember, this is October, miles from the nearest shower and we're camping for the night along the trail in a tent. NEXT TIME! ;-)
Being a 'mud-bee' rather than a leafcutter, the mandibles have a much simpler cutting edge than other British Megachile species.
Specimen from Oxford University Museum's foreign collection.
no more snow to roll around in, but Ducky managed to find a nice mud hole to explore to celebrate the new season. I like the way her funky fur blows in the breeze.
Letter in a street name in New Orleans. In some neighborhoods, the names of streets are shown in tiles in the sidewalks at street corners.
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This is a view of the mud volcano near Cartagena. The mud is not hot really. I think gasses from the swamps push the mud up and it forms the shape over years, or decades, or centuries, I'm not sure.
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Nest Building - Mud Sources
Barn and cliff swallows travel up to a half-mile to gather mud from the edges of ponds, puddles, and ditches. Gathering mud and constructing nests are social activities for cliff swallows; even unmated swallows may build a nest that goes unused.
To find one of their mud sources, look for swallows landing on the ground—they rarely do this at times other than when nest building. The birds will remain on the ground for a minute or so and then fly off to a nest site. The collection site will be marked with numerous small holes made by the birds as they poke their beaks into the mud several times to get a good load. You may also see swallows flying with feathers or grass—materials used in the final stages of nest building.