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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Banded Velvet Ant

Dasymutilla occidentalis africana

About

A wingless wasp covered in dense orange and black velvety hair. Despite the name, it is actually a solitary wasp, not an ant.

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Did You Know?

Their sting is so painful it has earned them the nickname 'cow killer' despite being unable to actually kill cattle.