We're talking about barn swallows, infamous for their mud nests above doorways and for transforming front porches into bathrooms. "They don't fly off, they don't go use the bathroom. They use it ...

These barn swallows are infamous for their mud nests above doorways and for transforming ... flying things that we don’t want around our house. We don’t have to pay a contractor or insect ...

Not only are they loud, protective of their nests, and messy, but the nests may actually damage houses and other structures ... building their mud nests in the spots where the roofs connect ...

attaching their nests to both the roof and the wall. House martins use mud to build their nests, which they collect from nearby ponds, streams and puddles. Both males and females collect the mud in ...

But there is also a large group of wasps who gather up mud. In this video, a potter wasp makes its nest and then seals in a paralysed caterpillar. The wasp's larva will consume the victim as it ...

“Unfortunately, barn swallows build their nest out of mud, and got the name barn swallow ‘cause they like to build under eaves of houses, barns, porches, sheds that they can be kind of messy, and so ...

Birds build their nests out of everything from twigs and mud to spider silk. Some birds don’t even build a nest, and the places where they do build them can vary. For this month’s Chirp Chat, ...

Photo from Chun-Fu Lin via Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga and Lin (2025) In a wetland of central Taiwan, a “slender” creature poked its “triangular” head out of a mud nest and made an ...