Why it's awesome: Despite the name, panda ants are a type of wasp belonging to the Mutillidae family, whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. They have a velvety white coat, ...

Velvet ants are in the Mutillidae family, which contain about 8,000 species throughout the world. But only 50 Mutillidae species can be found in Florida, as most prefer arid regions, such as the ...

THE discussion in your columns as to the utility of specific characters leads me to offer a few remarks on the Mutillidæ, an interesting family of Hymenoptera. In the arid region of the United ...

Three species of Mutillidae velvet ant can be found in the UK, but only two are classic velvet ants and sightings are relatively rare. Smicromyrme rufipes is mainly found in southeast England as far ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 92, No. 1 (Mar., 2009), pp. 43-53 (11 pages) The mature larvae of Bembix bidentata and one of its chrysidid and mutillid parasitoids are described and illustrated, and ...

Why it's awesome: Despite the name, panda ants are a type of wasp belonging to the Mutillidae family, whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. They have a velvety white coat, ...