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Common Eastern Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)
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Copyright © 2009
ROBERT MCNEAL
BIG RED VELVET LOOKING ANT, WHAT IS THIS? -
Dasymutilla occidentalis
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Brodnax, Brunswick County, Virginia, USA
August 28, 2009
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Contributed by
ROBERT MCNEAL
on 30 August, 2009 - 9:29am
Last updated 30 August, 2009 - 1:11pm
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margarethe brummermann
, 30 August, 2009 - 12:56pm
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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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margarethe brummermann
, 30 August, 2009 - 12:51pm
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