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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.
A female of Nemka viduata viduata (Pallas, 1773) looks for a nest of Bembix oculata to deposit her eggs. Male mutillids fly in search of females; after mating, the female enters a host insect nest, typically a ground-nesting bee or wasp burrow, and deposits one egg near each larva or pupa.
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 ]
The female wasps of the family Tiphiidae are mainly ectoparasitic on fossorial beetle larvae, especially members of the family Scarabaeidae and carabid subfamily Cicindelinae, known as tiger beetles. The nocturnal, winged males are often attracted to lights, so are well represented in museum collections; the wingless females mainly live ...
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.
Dasymutilla eminentia is a species of parasitoid wasp in the family Mutillidae. Members of this family of wasps are often mistaken for true ants , especially since females are wingless. Unlike ants, however, their bodies are covered by a dense pile of velvet-like hair, and they lack petiole nodes.
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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]