Red velvet ant (female)

eekie cow ants

Thanks Marta!

These are beautiful guys!

they are originally wingless wasps

Thanks Oneng!
I see them quite often too Tamar, but they just move so fast I can never get a decent pic - & I'm loath to try & handle one for obvious reasons! I've been posting a few moth photos of "iffy" quality recently because I want to document everything I see. As long as the photo is identifiable it's fine - & you have great photos so I'm sure it will be!

Nice find!
I see velvet ants every so often (like once every few years lately). I have a bad photo of a different one that I took earlier this year (before PN). I have been debating on posting it. It is identifiable as that species but such a lousy picture...ah, decisions, decisions.

Cute...and nice colour..