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Pacific velvet ant, Dasymutilla aureola, Mutillidae
Velvet ants are not true ants, but rather wasps. Females are wingless and have a powerful sting while males have wings but are not capable of stinging. Found along the Pacific coast of the United States and Mexico.
Photos 1-3 by brianjdykstranativebeesociety, 4-6 by kueda, 7-8 by farrispa, 9 by jcsullivan, and 10 (male) by hikingsandiego
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saw one of these beautiful bastards today
Well
Time to dust this blog off and add some new art!
Or well. A WIP.
This is Te'tto. She's a velvet ant, raised by an adoptive family of farmer bugs. Big family. She spends her free time sparring with a mantis scythe she forged with her first nail when she was a small lil bug.
In human standards, she stands (heh) at a whopping 5'9".
I'm half tempted to make a blog for her on here. Brainstorming blog names as I type this out.
I'll be copy pasting this info to the finished product, trust.
Just watched a cow killer walk off my porch and fall 6 inches into soft dirt awkwardly but stood up quick. 💚 A second later a cuckoo wasp landed on me and inspected me wik their antenna a bit. 💕 I love you, insects!
For reference
Cowkiller
Cuckoo wasp
Warning! ⚠️ SHOCKINGLY RANDOM. Dasymutilla occidentalis + ⚡️= Static Setae! These two look like they just came out of the dryer, or took a stroll onto a static ball. This was an old concept from 2014. I know, my mind is weird, okay.
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More Velvet Ant pictures...who wouldn't want more shots of this Badass Cowkiller? This one from Arkansas sent live in the mail by our correspondent FT. Its good to have such friends. Photos by Wayne Boo.
A random sample of the biodiversity here, 10 images of individual animals, all taken in the last few weeks, all from my yard. #entomology #arthropod #pentatomidae #paperwasp #vespidae #redwasp #cowkiller #groundwasps #velvetant #millipede #diplopoda #hobby #slug #bug #insects #truebug #fly #greenfly #nature #macro #farm #garden #PixielandFarm #princessagatha #buggirl #ento #macrocaptures #macrophotography #bugphotography #insectphotography (at Pixieland Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO1_-W5n9T0/?igshid=1518gucvm0kqf
Have you ever seen an eastern velvet ant? While actually a member of the wasp family Mutillidae, the females are flightless and often very brightly colored! They have one of the most painful stings in the Hymenoptera order, though they sting only in defense. #hymenoptera #mutillidae #cowkiller #prettybutfierce #centerforenvironmentandsociety #washcoll https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ySsUbgFfa/?igshid=dbt2d16sv4sd
