Exact investigation showed that this hive was soiled all over at the back with the excrement of the bees, and that the inmates had here made a kind of drain.
Were it not for this precaution, the excrement itself, from its accumulation, and commonly from its very colour, would point out the place where the young were concealed.
When full of excrement the caterpillars empty it by turning out the pellets with their feet.
Nor is there reason for surprise because of the absence of excrement in the burrow and the presence of matter in the rectum when the bear emerges in the spring.
This may give rise to the belief that a purgative has been employed as a means of cleansing the bowels and explains the presence of unbroken berries in the excrement and the absence of offensive odors.
The intestine of the Scarabaei is prolonged to a prodigious length in order to "drain the excrement to the last atom in its manifold circuits.
Plunging successively into each chamber of the dormitory the forepart of their bodies, "they provoke the emission of that fluid excrement of which the larvae, owing to their cloistration, contain an extreme reserve.
At this stage, during warm, dry spells, the dried excrement of the birds will accumulate on the surface of the ground.
This singular habit has given rise to the belief that Skuas feed upon the excrement of the Sea Mew, and to this they owe their name of Dung-birds.
Earlier in the season, characteristic nests of partially eaten leaves, petioles and excrement are formed by several caterpillars tying the mass together with silk.
The cocoons are made from excrement and bits of bark that have been fastened together with silk similar to the cocoons of the peach tree borer.
Thus a horse voids his excrement when its weight or bulk irritates the rectum or sphincter ani.
They have also learnt of each other to cover theirexcrement and urine;--about a spoonful of water was spilt upon my hearth from the tea-kettle, and I observed a kitten cover it with ashes.
It is surprising, as Mr. Homberg justly observes, that digestion alone should change the abominable smell of Excrement into an odour as agreeable as that of Ambergris.
One of the methods by which Mr. Homberg endeavoured to obtain from Excrement a clear Oil, without any bad smell, was to separate its earthy and gross parts, by filtering it before he distilled it.
For this purpose he diluted Excrement newly discharged with hot water, using a quart of water to an ounce of feces.
He actually found the art of drawing from Excrement a clear scentless Oil; but, in whatever way he applied it to Mercury, it produced no change in that metallic substance.
The process by which Mr. Homberg at last obtained from Excrement a clear oil without any bad smell is curious, and worthy of a place here; on account of the views and occasions of reflection which it may open.
The Salt which Mr. Homberg obtained fromexcrement is very remarkable.
Christicle, who's this excrement yellow gospeller on the Merrion hall?
The fossil excrement is seen not only dropped, but even in the alimentary canal.
The existence of Coprolites--the fossilized excrement of animals--has been considered a more than ordinarily triumphant proof of real pre-existence.
The Evacuation of this Excrement is procured, 1, By giving them no Milk at all for the first twenty-four Hours of their Lives.
We learn from Sonnini[106] and others, that the excrement of the camel, mixed with chopped straw and afterwards dried, is similarly used in the woodless parts of Egypt.
It may, therefore, be proper to point out that it is not so very long since the ingestion of human excrement was carried out by our own forefathers in the most sane and deliberate manner.
The maggots may pass no excrement from the intestine until they have eaten all their store of food.
On the most basic level, a writer will observe that the excrement of the rich differs in no way from that of the poor.
Apparently some of the inscribers in the bog-houses used excrement as a medium for--as well as a subject of--their inscriptions.
A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.
If a person dreams of riding on a bull or an elephant, ascending the summit of a mountain, entering a palace, or smearing himself with excrement he will obtain an increase of wealth.
When an open trench is used as a sink, each individual must always cover hisexcrement with dirt.
When open trenches are used the excrement must be kept covered at all times with a layer of earth.
The swallows form an exception to the rule, the excrement being voided by the young over the brink of the nest.
The accumulation of the excrement in the nest would prove most fatal to the young.
But when the excrement was completely dried it required but a few hours to reveal typhoid bacilli in the more absorptive fluid, milk, and at a later stage the water also showed clear signs of pollution.
So long as the excrement remained moist, even though it soon lost its more or less fluid consistence, the milk and water remained uninfected.
Only when the excrement dries can the contained bacteria infect the air.
We have already seen the beneficial qualities of the excrement of the cow.
In the fourth story, it is under the excrement of a cow that the enchanted gem, lost by the daughter of the king, is found.
But, to return to the cow-moon: we must complete the explanation of another myth, that of the excrement of the cow considered as purifying.
In order better to understand this strange myth, we must remember that the name of one of the Valkiries is "Mist," a word which means excrement and fog.
The hero becomes the excrement of a horse, and the horse a crow; the former glues the monster's lower lip to the earth, the latter suspends his upper lip to the sky.
In Tzetzas[730] I find again the curious notion that Midas sold his own stercus out of avarice, that is, that he changed it into gold, as Vespasian used to do by selling the excrement of his horse.
