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Female Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Sat Jul 5 2008
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 south side of Tucson, AZ very close to the desert. It was running across the sand 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. 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

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

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 south side of Tucson, AZ very close to the desert. It was running across the sand 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. 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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I found one of these yesterday. It was the first one I have ever seen.
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