rubbish-dump

Updated: May 11, 2025

The burrow of the Phalangist is surmounted by a voluminous rubbish-dump, the materials of which are piled in the form of a cylinder as long as the finger. Each of these dumps is a load of refuse and rubbish pushed outward by the little sapper, which shoulders it up from below.

Jean-Henri Fabre - Social Life in the Insect World