Unidentified Insect - Please Help

[Klas Nyblom]

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>From: "Stuart Roberts" <spmr at msn.com>
>To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
>Subject: Re: Unidentified Insect - Please Help
>Date: tor 19 aug 1999 10.11
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> Mike Soukup <mikayak at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:37BB8471.D06DE6E6 at ix.netcom.com...
>> Sounds like a "Velvet Ant"....which is really a hornet/wasp?   Nasty,
> nasty
>> sting I understand.
>
> It must be. The one that looks like an ant is the wingless female. She has
> the nasty sting. The ones flying around are the fully winged males. They
> have no sting (this is true of all bees and wasps)
>
>  Other than that, I believe they are harmless and they are
>> beautiful to look at
>

Found a nice picture here:

http://bugweb.entnem.ufl.edu/3005/Insect%20Orders%202/sld027.htm

Klas Nyblom