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BIG RED VELVET LOOKING ANT, WHAT IS THIS? - Dasymutilla occidentalis - female

BIG RED VELVET LOOKING ANT, WHAT IS THIS? - Dasymutilla occidentalis - Female
Brodnax, Brunswick County, Virginia, USA
August 28, 2009
Size: ?
maybe a better picture

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Exactly what you say it is, a Velvet Ant
but biologically, it is the wingless female of a wasp species, and can sting like a wasp (very much so)
Males have wings but no stinger

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