D. J. Brothers has written: 'Phylogeny and classification of the Aculeate hymenoptera, with special reference to mutillidae' -- subject(s): Classification, Evolution, Hymenoptera, Insects, Mutillidae
The Red Velvet Ant belongs to the family Mutillidae. The average life span of an individual in the wild is a few weeks.
Despite their popular name, velvet ants are not true ants but in fact belong to a family of parasitic wasps called Mutillidae. Female velvet ants are equipped with a very power stinger and the sting can be extraordinarily painful.
Just like any other bug. Step on it, but one stomp won't work it takes at least two times to be completely killed. But you can have some fun also like, burn it on a sunny day with a magnifying glass. But, I would rather keep it a study it, maybe for a project.
Most Mutillidae (velvet ants) live in the warmer parts of the planet, and mainly in fairly dry areas. Some of them live in nearly desert areas. They must live in places where they will find insects on which their young can feed and grow. These prey (or host) insects have their own habitats, so the Mutillidae must be adapted to where their particular hosts live, on which their larvae can feed. Most of the hosts are bees or wasps, while other kinds of velvet ants need caterpillars, beetles, cockroaches and a few other types of insects. Whatever the habitat of the host, the velvet ant must be able to live in the same habitat, usually sandy dry areas with suitable plant life.
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because they eat! its obvious, they eat.
We don't. We eat and eat and be in pain and eat and eat and eat.....
We don't. We eat and eat and be in pain and eat and eat and eat.....
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I don't know of any such ant, and anyway, most ants are not very colourful. It would be helpful if you could give us an idea of the size of the insect, and in which country you saw it. It seems to me most likely that it is not an ant at all, but a spider or wasp or beetle that imitates an ant to make birds and lizards avoid eating it; not many creatures eat ants (though some eat ants more than anything else.) If it is a wasp, then it probably is a wasp in the family Mutillidae, the wasps called "velvet ants". If it is a beetle there are several families that look like ants, such as the family Anthicidae. If it is a spider, there are several families that have some species that look like ants, especially the so-called jumping spiders, some of them called Myrmarachne, which means "ant spider". The Caribbean crazy ant (Nylanderia pubens) and certain species of carpenter ants (Camponotus) have striped abdomens.