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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Pacific Velvet Ant

Dasymutilla sackenii

About

A medium-sized velvet ant with orange and black coloring found along the Pacific coast of North America. It parasitizes ground-nesting bees and wasps.

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Did You Know?

Males are winged and look so different from the wingless females that they were originally described as separate species.