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QCHammy San Tan Valley, AZ(Zone 9a) Jun 01, 2010

I found this fuzzy bug in the front yard today. I have never seen anything like this before. Any ideas?

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QCHammy San Tan Valley, AZ(Zone 9a) Jun 01, 2010

A closer view.

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GardenChick1982 (Becky) Gresham, OR(Zone 8a) Jun 02, 2010

I am no bug expert but it kinda looks like these huge termites I have seen but they where not fuzzy

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GardenChick1982 (Becky) Gresham, OR(Zone 8a) Jun 02, 2010

I could not find anything about fuzzy termites but here is a photo of a giant dampwood.....there known to be a problem in california and surrounding areas

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jun 02, 2010

This is a female velvet ant (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), a wingless wasp with a very potent sting; males are winged like most ‘normal’ wasps. This one appears to be a Dasymutilla sp. - see http://tinyurl.com/2dn6urj for an example. They are parasitic/predatory on the larvae of ground-nesting bees and wasps - see http://tinyurl.com/2bt464w for more information.

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