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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

European Velvet Ant

Mutilla europaea

About

A robust wingless wasp with black and orange-red banding and dense velvety hair. Females enter bumblebee nests to lay eggs on their pupae.

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Did You Know?

It is one of the few insects that specifically targets bumblebee nests, sneaking in while the colony is less active.