...The carder bees "form little pockets or pouches of wax at the side of a wax-covered mass of growing larvæ into which the workers drop the pellets of pollen direct from their hind tibiæ...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...Did you eversee them gathering pellets of wet soil in their bills at some roadsidepuddle? It is, perhaps, the only time you can ever catch them withtheir feet on the earth...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Fisher found the skulls offour hundred and fifty-four small mammals in the pellets cast abouttheir home...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...The six skulls werefound in owl pellets...
Ticul Alvarez 「The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico」
...The first shot peppered her shoulder; the tiny pellets scarcescratching the tough hide...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...Most of these pellets contained squirrels' skulls; and Mr...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...In certain pellets that I studied, part of the wheat or othergrain was undigested or partly digested, whereas in other pellets theonly residue was finely divided chaff...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
...The pellets collected in June were all from the roost of one familygroup of crows...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
...For weeks at a timethere were no usable pellets under roosts occupied by hundreds of birds,although droppings and feathers were present...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
...The amount offish bones, crayfish, and snail shells in the pellets decreased duringthis period...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
...In the latter part of December the percentage increased andmany pellets were composed entirely of sunflower seed hulls...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
...However, few pellets were collected in the nesting season...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
...But in order to have a proper idea of the enormous quantity of micewhich this bird destroys, we must examine the pellets which itejects from its stomach in the place of its retreat...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...In sixteen monthsfrom the time that the apartment of the Owl on the old gatewaywas cleared out, there has been a deposit of above a bushel of pellets...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...He also assistshis spouse in the preparation of pellets of dung; he also assists her totransport the pellets, the pair facing each other and the female goingbackwards...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The pellets of pollen are about the size of a small pea...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
... Those on the way to the nest carry tiny pellets of mortar, the size of small shot; those who return at once settle on the driest and hardest spots...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...But the quick eyeno longer guides the aim, the timelyfinger no longer pulls the trigger, andthe useless pellets waste themselves onthe leaves and twigs...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...Shrews from Michoacán, México, found in barn owl pellets...
J. Knox Jones, Jr. 「Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico」
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