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Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)

Sat Jul 26 2008

This one was photographed on the east side of Tucson, AZ on top of Reddington Pass. It was running across the ground quickly looking for a hornet nest. The flightless solitary Wasps are Order Hymenoptera/ Family Mutillidae. Sacken’s Velvet Ant eats bees and wasps. The hairs allow it to survive cave ins when it enter the burrows of sand wasps, The female Velvet Wasp can deliver a very painful sting.

The flightless solitary Wasps are Order Hymenoptera/ Family Mutillidae. Sacken’s Velvet Ant eats bees and wasps. The hairs allow it to survive cave ins when it enter the burrows of sand wasps, The female Velvet Wasp can deliver a very painful sting. This one was photographed on the east side of Tucson, AZ on top of Reddington Pass. It was running across the ground quickly looking for a hornet nest

This one was photographed on the east side of Tucson, AZ on top of Reddington Pass. It was running across the ground quickly looking for a hornet nest

Female Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)

This one was photographed on the south side of Tucson, AZ very close to the desert. It was running across the sand looking for a hornet nest

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RE: Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Rating: 5.00 out of 10

Sun Jun 14 2009
1: 29 pm

I was up at saguaro lake sat, june 13,2009 and we saw a fury red insect running and we all were saing that it was a spider;fire ant? I looked this picture up and now I know it was a velvet ant. I wish I would have taken a picture. I am glade that you took a picture.

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