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velvet ants

Entomology A parasitic wasp indigenous to the Southern/Southwestern US, the stings of which evoke allergic reactions Management Avoid, anti-allergy injections; injection therapy. Cf Fire ant.
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Unfortunately low sampling numbers of many counties, including the fact that our data show no velvet ants were collected at all in a few counties, has hindered some of these comparisons in the past.
Tropical and subtropical velvet ants of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with de scriptions of 45 new species.
Thus, it is likely that many suitable velvet ant habitats in Oklahoma have also changed, particularly where mutillid diversity is highest.
Webpage addresses for the confirmed images of velvet ant species in Bugguide.net are listed in Table 2.
Velvet ants, past and present: a county-wide checklist of the distribution and diversity of mutillidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Oklahoma including two new state records, and new behavioral observations for Dasymutilla foxi (Cockerell)
Following their collection, female velvet ants were sorted to genus and morphospecies at Utah State University.
Molecular sex association of three species of nocturnal velvet ant (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae).
Nectaring by nocturnal velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)
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