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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Thistledown Velvet Ant

Dasymutilla gloriosa

About

A strikingly beautiful velvet ant covered in long white hair that resembles a piece of thistledown blowing across desert sand. The wingless females are a remarkable mimic of windblown plant material.

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Did You Know?

Its white fluffy appearance camouflages it among the creosote seed pods and dried plant debris of its desert habitat.