Must have chased this thing around for half and hour.
Somewhat a bit unlike some of the Velvet ants (wingless wasps) that I have seen, I am thinking maybe a juvenile?
"Cow killer?"
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Nice find Ken! I rarely encounter Mutillidae over here. Dixie has a much more favourable climate for them and insects in general. (Sigh!)
Looks like a female Pseudomethoca.
--Betty
Looks like a female Pseudomethoca.
Being holometabolous like all Hymenoptera, the parasitic "juveniles" or larvae look totally different, grub/maggot-like, undergo pupation and after that they are adults and look like their mum or dad, the later mostly bearing wings, and as adult insects never grow or molt again.Somewhat a bit unlike some of the Velvet ants (wingless wasps) that I have seen, I am thinking maybe a juvenile?
--Betty
Atticus Finch: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view
- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Lee, N. H. 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott, New York.
- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Lee, N. H. 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott, New York.