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Updated: May 28, 2025
They first scrape the clay with their fore-mandibles, passing it on to the second pair of feet, and then to the large foliated expansions of the hind-shanks, patting it in the process, till the little hodsmen have as much as they can carry, when they fly off with their loads to their nests. One species builds a tubular gallery of clay of a trumpet shape at the mouth.
One may say that it is nearly always the four hind-shanks which alone support the suspended insect. And this reversed position, which seems to us so trying, lasts for no short while: it is prolonged, in my cages, for ten months without a break.
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