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Velvet Ant is a Cow Killer, Dasymutilla occidentalis - Dasymutilla occidentalis - female
Copyright © 2008 Mariaisabella Abrams

Velvet Ant is a Cow Killer, Dasymutilla occidentalis - Dasymutilla occidentalis - Female
Rutherford / middle Tennessee / Murfreesboro County, Tennessee, USA
August 13, 2008
Look at what my daughter Mariaisabella found running across the parking lot
Contributed by William M. Abrams, LDO on 13 August, 2008 - 9:37pm

Fun photo
Neat way to capture how fast they move.
… Ron Hemberger, 13 August, 2008 - 11:19pm

Moved
Moved from Arthropods.
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 August, 2008 - 9:59pm

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