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Eastern Velvet Ant

Dasymutilla occidentalis

Photo by e.drinnon
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Field Notes

Description:

Female, nearly an inch long.

Notes:

Velvet ants are actually members of a family of wasps. The females are wingless, and can deliver an incredibly painful sting.

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Dasymutilla occidentalis

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