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  2. Velvet ant - Wikipedia

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    Mating pair. Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants.Their common name velvet ant refers to their resemblance to an ant, and their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold.

  3. Dasymutilla occidentalis - Wikipedia

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    Like most wasp species, velvet ants live solitary lives. Males take to the air to detect pheromones released by females. Males will fly towards female stridulation sounds as well. [12] Once a receptive female is located, the male will carry the female in his mandibles and move her to a place he deems "safe" to mate.

  4. Euspinolia militaris - Wikipedia

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    The color patterns of a female wasp is what helps the male wasp differentiate between another male and a female. [3] Like other mutillids, during mating the males are presumed to lift females and proceed to mate while airborne. [ 4 ]

  5. Brachycistidinae - Wikipedia

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    These wasps demonstrate extreme sexual dimorphism; the females resemble ants and are wingless, while the males are winged and nocturnal. These extreme differences between the sexes have led to instances where the males and females are described as separate species, known as "dual taxonomy", and later work shows the two "species" to be ...

  6. Dasymutilla - Wikipedia

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    Dasymutilla is a wasp genus belonging to the family Mutillidae.Their larvae are external parasites to various types of ground-nesting Hymenoptera.Most of the velvet ants in North America—the wingless females of which are conspicuous as colorful, fast, and "fuzzy" bugs—are in the genus Dasymutilla.

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  8. Blastophaga psenes - Wikipedia

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    Winged female and wingless male. Blastophaga psenes is a wasp species in the genus Blastophaga. It pollinates the common fig Ficus carica and the closely related Ficus palmata. [3] These wasps breed in figs without the need for a colony or nest, and the adults live for only a few days or weeks. [4]

  9. Agaonidae - Wikipedia

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    The pollinating female fig wasps are winged and in general dark, while the males are mostly wingless and whitish. This difference of color is probably due to a clear split in the gender role. Once they have mated, male and female fig wasps have different fates.