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Cow Killer Ant or Velvet Ant

Dasymutilla occidentalis

Photo by James McNair
Published on Project Noah
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Cow Killer

Dasymutilla occidentalis

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bayucca
Mutillidae, Dasymutilla occidentalis, I would say... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Velvet_ant_9118.JPG http://bugguide.net/node/view/685694 http://bugguide.net/node/view/13126 Please, verify, ants are not really my business...

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