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Red and black stripes, velvet looking appearance
Found in the meadows amongst wild flowers. Velvet Ant. Dasymutilla sp aka as ...
Orange and black fuzzy stripes. Six legs. Hissing sound.
Black and red hairy body, mimicking an ant. When disturbed lets out a ...
This is actually a female wasp. Adults are nectar-feeders but the larvae are ...
A red and black wingless wasp covered in velvety hair. About 3/4"long.
Found him while on a walk; he was wandering, solitarily, in a clover patch.
Bright red spider with black bands across its legs and back. Resembles the Red ...
Also known as eastern velvet ant. It is actually a wasp. Females are wingless ...
This boldly colored male velvet ant flew by me and landed on some young pines ...
Females recognized by large size, bold black-and-orange pattern, thorax longer ...
These insects are wasps, not ants. Females are wingless and covered with dense ...
The bug was about an inch in length including the antennae. It has 6 black ...