Well, not exactly a satellite photo, but I did use my macro lens for the shot. It is excavation at it's finest, but it's not from big equipment the size of apartment buildings. It's from these two yellow jackets.
They were so busy ballin up this dirt to haul off and build their nests.
At first they'd dart around testin the softness of the dirt. Then they'd decide on a good spot and hunker down to start diggin.
As they dug up the dirt they would coat the ball in saliva. You can see the ball start to form.
Now he's added the saliva and it looks all slick and smooth:
When they had enough mud, they would stand on their forelegs with their ass-end in the air, packin the ball of mud tightly, before they lifted of into the air. I didn't get a good picture of that because they were so stinkin fast once they decided they had enough mud.
Not to sound like a nature-environmental-tree-huggin-birkenstock-wearin-don't-believe-in-washing-my-body-type of freak, but it was pretty neat to watch these two. Wherever they took the mud didn't take long because in about 45 seconds, they were back. Come to think of it.....maybe there were a whole bunch of them and I just didn't know. They were all wearin those same yellow jackets with no name tags.
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