Cow killer wasp

The Docile Nature of a Cow Killer Has a large, flashy, bright red-orange, fuzzy ant-like creature ever captured your attention? It may have been the infamous velvet ant, otherwise fittingly known a…

You might even hear them in your yard without knowing it. These vicious little monsters have a scream or squeak that they make.

Dasymutilla occidentalis, aka Velvet ant, aka Cow killer wasp. The stinger is a modified ovipositor.

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Red velvet ant or Cow Killer

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Looks nice, tastes really really bad Most insects live in constant fear of predators—but not the velvet ant. New research suggests that these gaudy, fuzzy insects are essentially invincible. Velvet ants are actually wasps whose wingless females walk in search of other wasp and bee nests to parasitise. Though they’re slow, they’re bristling with deterrents—a …

💬 0 🔁 81 ❤️ 174 · Red Velvet Ant aka Cow Killer (Dasymutilla occidentalis), female, family Mutillidae, Grove, Oklahoma, USA This is actually not an ant at all, but it actually a species of wasp.…

Cow Killer by jciv, via Flickr

These species are also known as ‘Euspinolia militaris’ was nicknamed panda ant after its markings.Though it appears as an ant it is actually a species of wingless wasp. These wingless wasps are related to the Red Velvet Ant who are also known as a ‘cow killer’ due to its painful sting which is believed to be strong enough to subdue a grown cow.

Velvet aka Cow killer ant which is actually a wingless wasp. BEWARE

Cow Killer and Velvet Ant. From Digital Museum of Natural History's Facebook Page.

In the summer, bare soil can attract two scary-looking insects with threatening names: cicada killer and cow killer.

Red Velvet Ants are a species of wasps that mimic ants. Here are everything you should know about cow killer (Dasymutilla occidentalis).

Cow Killer by melvynyeo on DeviantArt

˚Cow killer wasp by kim fleming @ flickr

Red velvet ant "cow killer " wasp