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Velvet Ant

order Hymenoptera      family Dasymutilla (Velvet Ant)

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Black Velvet Ant (Cow Killer) Dasymutilla nigripes

Body about 1/2" long.  No wings means it is a female, males have black wings.  She will lay her egg near a ground bee nest where the wasp larva devours the bee larva.

Photos taken in Taylor County, June 2006

Similar Species

Dasymutilla asopus

 

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Velvet Ant Dasymutilla sp.

Body about ?" long.  No wings means it is a female.  She will lay her egg near a ground bee nest where the wasp larva devours the bee larva.

Photo taken in Taylor County,

Similar Species

Dasymutilla creusa

Dasymutilla klugii

Dasymutilla leda

Dasymutilla magnifica

 

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