Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole.
This is the smallest of the Australian Cray-fish, and inhabits burrows on land, which it excavates for itself and in which a small store of water is retained.
This fish has hitherto been found only in burrows, which it excavates 1n clay or consolidated mud, at a distance from water.
This species excavates its den in soft, sandy soil.
On the Range Reserve merriami erects no mounds, but excavates its burrows in the open or at the base of Prosopis, Lycium, or other brush.
Its larva inhabits rotten wood, usually selecting the red pine, in which it excavates numerous flat galleries near the surface of the logs.
The female, when about to deposit her eggs, excavates a small cavity nearly three inches square, in which they are placed.
That Brahmana who excavates a tank, and he that plants trees, and he that performs sacrifices, are all worshipped in heaven even as men that are devoted to truthfulness of speech.
Alone she moulds her sphere, extracts it from the lump and rolls it backwards, with her back to her task, in the position adopted by the male Sisyphus; alone she excavates her burrow, and alone she buries the fruit of her labour.
Each grub excavates a lodging in the mass of the bean, respecting the epidermis, and preparing a circular trap-door which the adult can easily open with a push at the moment of emergence.
It usually excavates a long and often winding burrow, making a slight nest of dry grass at the end, on which is laid a single white egg.
In most places the bird makes its scanty nest in a burrow which it excavates itself, but in some localities rabbit holes are frequently made use of.
Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole.
Nest: This species usually excavates its cavities in snags or live trees with dead heartwood, especially in areas that have been burned or logged (Bent 1939).
Nest: The Lewis' woodpecker generally excavates its own nest cavity, but will use natural cavities or holes excavated in previous years.
Nest: The northern three-toed woodpecker excavates nest cavities each year in standing dead trees or in dead limbs of live trees with rotted heartwood (Jackman and Scott 1975).
Nest: The Gila woodpeckerexcavates holes in saguaro cacti for nests.
Nest: The Arizona woodpecker excavates holes in dead branches of living trees, primarily walnuts, oaks, maples, and sycamores.
When the spider has decided upon a location, which is always in clay, adobe or stiff soil, he excavates the shaft by means of the sharp horns at the end of his mandibles, which are his pick and shovel and mining tools.
He excavates a conical pitfall, in which he conceals himself, and seizes the unfortunate ants and other insects whom ill-chance causes to roll into it.
A river which excavates its own bed is in unsteady motion so long as the slope and form of the bed is changing.
The effect is that the deep stream excavates its bed more rapidly than the shallow stream.
It builds its habitation in hollow trees, and in burrows, which it excavates in the banks of rivers or streams, and its young (generally twins) are produced in early spring.
In general the muskrat lives in burrows, which it excavates in the banks of ponds or streams, bringing forth its young, from three to nine in number, in the nest, which it forms at the end of the tunnel.
It is not so abundant as the green species, and excavates its nest at a higher level.
Occasionally it literally excavates its quarry, but, as a rule, it is not obliged to resort to such drastic measures.
This excavates a perfectly cylindrical tunnel, upon the sides of which are exposed the stellar structure of the coral.
I have described the whole process by which it excavatesits trap, and the ingenious contrivances to which it has recourse.
It then traces a new one, excavates another furrow in a similar manner, and by a repetition of these operations at length arrives at the centre of its cavity.
The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten inches long, in a horizontal direction, either in the ground or in the trunk of a rotten willow-tree, or occasionally in other decaying wood.
The female excavates a chamber near the surface of the ground and lays her eggs in it to be incubated by the sun's heat, as are most insects' eggs.
She sinks a deeper shaft than does our spider, but excavates it in the same way with similar tools, her fangs, and lines it with silk from her own body.
It excavates a straight hole in a rotten or decaying branch to breed in, and a common species of Synallaxis (Leptasthenura aegithaloides) frequently makes use of its forsaken breeding-holes.
It lays two to four eggs, with white and highly polished shells, and breeds in holes which it excavates in old walls of mud or of unbaked brick, also in the banks of streams; and the eggs are laid on the bare floor without any lining.
The Opossum excavates a burrow near a thicket not far distant from the abode of Man, and sleeps there during the whole day.
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