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Velvet ant

Superfamily Vespoidea, Family Mutillidae

Description:

Despite their name, velvet ants are actually wasps. This one never stopped enough for me to take some decent photos...

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2 Comments

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 10 years ago

You are right Sergio. These "guys" move really fast so is very hard to take good pictures of them

Sergio Monteiro
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Sergio Monteiro

Morretes, PR, Brazil

Spotted on Feb 1, 2014
Submitted on Feb 2, 2014

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