My mother took this picture of a strange looking ant on our patio and sent it to me.
Sadly this is the only image we have of this ant.
It is low priority but I would appreciate it if you guys could identify this ant's species.
Strange Orange Ant?
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Re: Strange Orange Ant?
That looks like a velvet ant/Cow killer ant. It's not an ant, but rather a wasp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutillidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutillidae
Re: Strange Orange Ant?
I suspected that, but I thought the wasps were more hairy. I'm inclined to believe you as it doesn't really look like an ant, just strange it doesn't look like most velvet wasps either.MaxGen wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:36 pmThat looks like a velvet ant/Cow killer ant. It's not an ant, but rather a wasp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutillidae
Re: Strange Orange Ant?
there are some that seem to be less velvety, unless you look closely...
http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2015/04/04/velvet-ant/
http://capemaywildlife.com/_templates/beewaspgroup_velvetants.html
http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2015/04/04/velvet-ant/
http://capemaywildlife.com/_templates/beewaspgroup_velvetants.html
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