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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 » Pacific Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla aureola)
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Bee-like Insect, but no wings - Dasymutilla aureola - female
Copyright © 2011 Ethan Winning

Bee-like Insect, but no wings - Dasymutilla aureola - Female
Walnut Creek Open Space, Contra Costa County, California, USA
July 10, 2011
Size: About an inch
Sorry this can't be sharper, but it was running and I could barely keep up. Looks like a bee without wings. "Furry" all over. Have seen these several times, always alone, always on a trail heading toward oak grass. Though I've been walking these trails for 6 months, they only "emerged" in late June.
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Contributed by Ethan Winning on 10 July, 2011 - 4:30pm
Last updated 17 August, 2021 - 7:37pm

Dasymutilla aureola
Moved from Dasymutilla.
… George Waldren, 22 July, 2011 - 12:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 10 July, 2011 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

Velvet ant female?
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