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Bembix sp. vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Dasymutilla - female
Copyright © 2009 norman and cheryl lavers

Bembix sp. vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Dasymutilla - Female
St. Francis, Clay County, Arkansas, USA
August 3, 2009
The Bembix continues digging down to feed its larva, as if no velvet ant were there.

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Bembix sp. wasp vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Bembix - female Bembix sp. vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Bembix - female Bembix sp. vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Bembix - female Bembix sp. vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Bembix - female Bembix sp. vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Bembix - female Bembix sp. vs. Eastern Velvet Ant: Behavior - Dasymutilla - female
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Contributed by norman and cheryl lavers on 7 August, 2009 - 9:11am
Last updated 7 September, 2009 - 9:39am

Wonderful Series...What Happened Next?
Did the velvet ant just wait until the Bembix left and then enter the nest? Or did the Bembix carry off the velvet ant to somewhere far off? Or...?

PS: This is great! A few minutes before finding your series, I had just read that Dasymutilla is a natural enemy of Bembix. BugGuide allows a legion of enthusiasts to combine and share records of our serendipitous natural history observations...and we get to see and learn so much more :-)
… Aaron Schusteff, 13 November, 2009 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

 
As I recall
the velvet ant wandered off (and so did we, shortly after).
… norman and cheryl lavers, 13 November, 2009 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request. I split this one off from the rest so there would be a behavior record on the velvet ant page. There seemed to be disagreement over which species of velvet ant so I left it at genus. Move to species if there was actually agreement.
… John F. Carr, 7 September, 2009 - 9:39am login or register to post comments

Great behavioral series!!!!
… margarethe brummermann, 7 August, 2009 - 12:39pm login or register to post comments

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