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Ttsimon Greenbelt, MD Aug 15, 2014

Sitting on our front porch we've been visited twice in the past few days by a curious insect that
We have provisionally id'd as the female red velvet ant--red with black stripe on rear, approx.
one inch long. Is this insect common in Md (suburban Washington, DC)?
Tom

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 15, 2014

Don't know about it being 'common' there, but they occur as far north as New England - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasymutilla_occidentalis

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