Red Velvet Ant facts: they're not actually ants for starters... | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover a wasp with a confusing name who could supposedly kill a cow.

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Credits via Youtube:
Michelleosprey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtGSbLTqLs

Credits via Flickr:
David Hill - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dehill/14550721300; https://www.flickr.com/photos/dehill/14550746798; https://www.flickr.com/photos/dehill/14737402745
Doug McGrady - https://www.flickr.com/photos/douglas_mcgrady/36307201776
Fritz Flohr Reynolds - https://www.flickr.com/photos/fritzflohrreynolds/14980245837
Melissa McMasters - https://www.flickr.com/photos/cricketsblog/35426172133; https://www.flickr.com/photos/cricketsblog/43100488730
Judy Gallagher -https://www.flickr.com/photos/52450054@N04/6042457187; https://www.flickr.com/photos/52450054@N04/9002115842
Bob - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mullica/9331620851
Kerry Wixted - https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwixted0/3600652520
David Carter-Tod - https://www.flickr.com/photos/93854087@N00/20489437334
Lisa Zins - https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisazins/37632684890; https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisazins/37841516336

Credits via Wiki Users:
Sammccants - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Velvetant.JPG
Andy - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dasymutilla_occidentalis_02.jpg
Mcevan - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Velvet_Ant.JPG
Pristurus - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nemka_viduata_viduata_-_2012-10-17.webm

Other attributions:
supertiger - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/6184404
Judy Gallagher - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/7814527; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/10513401
Melissa McMasters - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/9485183; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/25567594
Richard Stovall - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/21302056; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/21302049; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/21302043; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/21302034; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/21302026; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/21302014
Amanda Hurst - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/22537568
Shawn Taylor - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/23755054; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/23755051
Rob John - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/24068514
akibono - https://freesound.org/people/akibono/sounds/323294; https://freesound.org/people/akibono/sounds/323293
Websites used for research collection:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/13126
https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/red-velvet-ant-or-cow-killer/
https://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/wasps/mutillidae.htm
https://eol.org/pages/600011/data
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1564347?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.gaentsoc.org/doi/abs/10.18474/0749-8004-21.4.367?journalCode=ents
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-008-0145-4
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1570-7458.1977.tb02663.x
https://books.google.com/books?id=C8xJE2NfQpIC&pg=PA261
https://books.google.com/books?id=i9ITMiiohVQC&pg=PA4075
https://books.google.com/books?id=YPv6CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA114
https://bugguide.net/node/view/159
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**changes were made to the original

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