#mutillidae — Public Fediverse posts
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My favorite wingless insect is not a fly but a whole family of wasps: the velvet ants. Here, an American one. Note only females are wingless. The power of their sting is also the stuff of legend.
Dasymutilla flammifera, female.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175677123 -
My favorite wingless insect is not a fly but a whole family of wasps: the velvet ants. Here, an American one. Note only females are wingless. The power of their sting is also the stuff of legend.
Dasymutilla flammifera, female.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175677123 -
My favorite wingless insect is not a fly but a whole family of wasps: the velvet ants. Here, an American one. Note only females are wingless. The power of their sting is also the stuff of legend.
Dasymutilla flammifera, female.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175677123 -
My favorite wingless insect is not a fly but a whole family of wasps: the velvet ants. Here, an American one. Note only females are wingless. The power of their sting is also the stuff of legend.
Dasymutilla flammifera, female.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175677123 -
My favorite wingless insect is not a fly but a whole family of wasps: the velvet ants. Here, an American one. Note only females are wingless. The power of their sting is also the stuff of legend.
Dasymutilla flammifera, female.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175677123 -
@entospace Indeed. And fascinating behaviours that the lack of wings in wasps opens up. For example, in velvet ants, the apterous female depends on the winged male to take her to a good foraging spot–quite the nuptial flight! She will then hunt for prey and stock up cells for her offspring. Some example velvet ants (Mutillidae), mostly from Croatia: https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/albertcardona?view=tree&details_view=observations&taxon_id=48511
(Another example are fig wasps, with a role reversal: apterous males never leave the fig, whereas females have wings and fly into other figs, contributing to pollinating it.)
#VelvetAnts #Mutillidae #iNaturalist #entomology #insects #wasplove #wasps
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@entospace Indeed. And fascinating behaviours that the lack of wings in wasps opens up. For example, in velvet ants, the apterous female depends on the winged male to take her to a good foraging spot–quite the nuptial flight! She will then hunt for prey and stock up cells for her offspring. Some example velvet ants (Mutillidae), mostly from Croatia: https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/albertcardona?view=tree&details_view=observations&taxon_id=48511
(Another example are fig wasps, with a role reversal: apterous males never leave the fig, whereas females have wings and fly into other figs, contributing to pollinating it.)
#VelvetAnts #Mutillidae #iNaturalist #entomology #insects #wasplove #wasps
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@entospace Indeed. And fascinating behaviours that the lack of wings in wasps opens up. For example, in velvet ants, the apterous female depends on the winged male to take her to a good foraging spot–quite the nuptial flight! She will then hunt for prey and stock up cells for her offspring. Some example velvet ants (Mutillidae), mostly from Croatia: https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/albertcardona?view=tree&details_view=observations&taxon_id=48511
(Another example are fig wasps, with a role reversal: apterous males never leave the fig, whereas females have wings and fly into other figs, contributing to pollinating it.)
#VelvetAnts #Mutillidae #iNaturalist #entomology #insects #wasplove #wasps
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@entospace Indeed. And fascinating behaviours that the lack of wings in wasps opens up. For example, in velvet ants, the apterous female depends on the winged male to take her to a good foraging spot–quite the nuptial flight! She will then hunt for prey and stock up cells for her offspring. Some example velvet ants (Mutillidae), mostly from Croatia: https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/albertcardona?view=tree&details_view=observations&taxon_id=48511
(Another example are fig wasps, with a role reversal: apterous males never leave the fig, whereas females have wings and fly into other figs, contributing to pollinating it.)
#VelvetAnts #Mutillidae #iNaturalist #entomology #insects #wasplove #wasps