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Cow Killer Ant or Velvet Ant

Dasymutilla occidentalis

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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago
Cow Killer
Dasymutilla occidentalis http://www.whatsthatbug.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/velvet_ant_lex.jpg


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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Mutillidae, Dasymutilla occidentalis, I would say...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Velv...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/685694
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13126
Please, verify, ants are not really my business...

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James McNair
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James McNair

Florida, USA

Spotted on Jun 22, 2014
Submitted on Jun 27, 2014

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