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Photo by Vinny
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Field Notes

Description:

What I thought was an Ant turned out to be a flightless female wasp that very closely resembles an Ant. Approx. 6mm long, it was running around digging in the sand but froze still when I got close with the camera.

Species ID Suggestions

velvet ant

Mutillidae
slugu
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Comments (3)
EmilieChich
Nice spotting. Velvet ant, fam. Mutillidae; cannot get any closer.
Vinny
Thanks trigs, helps when they sit perfectly still :)

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Hymenoptera of the world -- bees, ants and all their friends
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2016

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