My daily walk with 'the boss' takes me along a farm track which in dry weather becomes very compacted with the daily use of heavy tractors and farm machinery. I dont know how to describe the ground other than that with wet weather it becomes thick clinging mud only to dry to a rock hard surface when it dries out. Year in year out I find these small mounds and burrows in a particular length of the track. I have never been fortunate enough to see the occupants but researching the matter I think that they are digger wasps and possibly ammophila sabulosa or hinderius albilabris until somebody tells me otherwise!!! I found these particular burrows at the beginning of this month. Needless to say with the present heavy rain and tractor use they no longer exist and so I will have to wait for when (or if) the sunshine returns.
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