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Velvet ant - Dasymutilla quadriguttata - male

Velvet ant - Dasymutilla quadriguttata - Male
Bluefield Ranch, St. Lucie County, Florida, USA
May 21, 2007
Size: BL 13mm
Chilled

Moved
Moved from Dasymutilla mutata.

this is the male D.mutata. it
this is the male D.mutata. its strange that he would be going after the D.occidentalis.

 
Could
it be the cow killer had not yet been fertilized, and the mutata female was?

 
species do some times try to
species do some times try to mate with eachother, but of course nothing comes of it. you could be right though. judging by the size, that must have been a huge male mutata.

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