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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) » Sphaeropthalminae » Dasymutillini » Dasymutilla » Pacific Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla aureola)
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fuzzy insect on beach - Dasymutilla aureola
Copyright © 2009 nature4me

fuzzy insect on beach - Dasymutilla aureola
Between Cambria and San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
July 12, 2009
Size: 1/2"
I spotted this fairly large insect scurrying across the sand and pebbles by the water's edge and wouid like to know what it is as nobody I know has any idea. Thanks so much for your help...Denise
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Contributed by nature4me on 12 July, 2009 - 6:33pm
Last updated 6 August, 2009 - 11:37am

Just Curious...
I'm wondering if this velvet ant was found by an ocean beach or by the shore of a creek? I'm guessing from the look of the sand (and from your location info) it was by the ocean...which struck me as interesting, as I've always presumed they liked (somewhat dry) land habitats.
… Aaron Schusteff, 18 April, 2010 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

 
They love coastal habitat, if
They love coastal habitat, if there are coastal sandunes with low growing plants. This past summer I collected a D. sackenii in the sierras, that was a new one for me. On a granite bolder no less!
… William Ericson, 18 April, 2010 - 9:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Domingo Zungri, 6 August, 2009 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

Dasymutilla aureola female, w
Dasymutilla aureola female, with setae rubbed off.
… William Ericson, 13 July, 2009 - 1:33am login or register to post comments

a 'velvet ant' -- a female wasp in the Mutillidae family
i'm sure others will give you a more specific ID
… v belov, 12 July, 2009 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

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