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Velvet Ant

Timulla barbigera

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5 Comments

PaulPiro
PaulPiro 10 years ago

Thank you! And yes it was hard to catch.

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 10 years ago

Nice shots of an animal that never slows down for a photo. :-)

PaulPiro
PaulPiro 10 years ago

I will take a look! Thank you! This is very interesting.

Gordon Dietzman
Gordon Dietzman 10 years ago

I should add that this is actually a wasp, not an ant.

Gordon Dietzman
Gordon Dietzman 10 years ago

This is a velvet ant. Take a look at this page and see what you think and perhaps you can narrow the ID further.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13119/bgpa...

PaulPiro
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PaulPiro

Anacoco, Louisiana, USA

Spotted on Sep 13, 2013
Submitted on Sep 13, 2013

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