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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 » Sacken's Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackenii)
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Velvet ant - Dasymutilla sackenii - male
Copyright © 2010 Ron Hemberger

Velvet ant - Dasymutilla sackenii - Male
Santiago Oaks Regional Park, Orange, Orange County, California, USA
July 26, 2010

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Velvet ant seeks ID. Dasymutilla maybe? - Dasymutilla sackenii - male Velvet ant - Dasymutilla sackenii - male Velvet ant - Dasymutilla sackenii - male Velvet ant - Dasymutilla sackenii - male
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 29 July, 2010 - 6:38pm
Last updated 30 July, 2010 - 4:09am

Wow Ron!
You found a male! And got great shots of it...pretty darn bitchen! :-)
… Aaron Schusteff, 1 August, 2010 - 4:06am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Aaron. Yeah, it made me happy.
The thing just plunked down on the ground in front of me. We need to encourage that in their gene pool!
… Ron Hemberger, 1 August, 2010 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

[Inadvertent duplicate comment]
(Can't delete these---disregard)
… Aaron Schusteff, 1 August, 2010 - 4:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Velvet Ants.
… v belov, 30 July, 2010 - 4:09am login or register to post comments

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