Velvet ant, family Mutillidae

Query: Dasymutilla occidentalis

Result: 4^th of 5

Subject:	Velvet ant, family Mutillidae

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Velvet ant, family Mutillidae

Description Velvet ant
Source Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsaff/43125980/
Date Aug 28, 2005
Author Kevin Staff
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Velvet_ant.jpg

Velvet ants are popularly known as "cow killers", but this is a fanciful name; they cannot kill animals as large as cows. There are hundreds of species: two of the most well-known are Dasymutilla occidentalis in the eastern USA, and Dasymutilla magnifica, in the western USA.
Note that velvet ants are not ants proper: that is, they are not members of the ant family Formicidae, but are actually wingless wasps in the family Mutillidae.

Dasymutilla occidentalis
4/5

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