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Red velvet ants
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:20 pm
Have you guys seen/dealt with these in Baton Rouge area?
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:23 pm to charlestonchief
One does not deal with a red velvet ant, you get out of its way.
Wouldn’t call them common but I’ve seen a few in the yard. Can’t imagine there’s much you can do to prevent or deter them.
Wouldn’t call them common but I’ve seen a few in the yard. Can’t imagine there’s much you can do to prevent or deter them.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:27 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
Gotcha, I mashed one earlier without realizing what it was, just wondered if they were prevalent to the area.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:29 pm to charlestonchief
You can’t stomp them out. Hardly bash them out with a hammer. Gotta go chemical warfare on them. Flaming chemicals even better.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:31 pm to charlestonchief
You don't want to frick with those things, they'll drop you like a fly.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:35 pm to charlestonchief
I was bitten by one when I was around 6-7 at my grandad's in Boligee, AL. I don't know if it was because I was young, but it was one of the more painful things I can remember happening through the years
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:41 pm to charlestonchief
Fire, copious amounts of fire.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:45 pm to back9Tiger
Posted on 8/5/20 at 4:47 pm to charlestonchief
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Commonly mistaken for an ant, because of its appearance and its common name, it is a parasitoid wasp species in which the females are wingless, as is true for all females of Mutillidae. It can be recognized by its black and orange-red striped coloring. Females are capable of an extremely painful sting, hence the name "cow killer"
Check this out:
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They seek out the brood cells of Eastern cicada killers and other large ground-nesting members of Crabronidae, where they deposit an egg onto a host larva. The egg quickly hatches into a white, legless grub, which consumes the host and goes through several larval stages prior to pupation. Unlike the females, males have dark, translucent wings and do not possess a sting
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:00 pm to charlestonchief
They still sting when dead. Picked one up when I was in middle school. I cried like a bitch probably most painful thing I’ve experienced, and I’ve broken several different bones. Thought my arm was on fire for a few hours
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:05 pm to charlestonchief
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Red velvet ants
Not an ant. It's a wingless wasp. Look it up.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:24 pm to charlestonchief
When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's, I saw them all of the time on our farm. I probably haven't seen one in 20 years.
Called them cow ants and they were extremely hard to kill. Never knew until now that they were really wingless wasps and not really ants.
Called them cow ants and they were extremely hard to kill. Never knew until now that they were really wingless wasps and not really ants.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:53 pm to charlestonchief
Lost a friend over those.......
One was crawling up his arm and he asked me if they bite.... I said NO........
Waited a few seconds then chirped “but they STING. Like nothing else of this earth.....
And when he tensed up it stung him twice
He cried like a girl
One was crawling up his arm and he asked me if they bite.... I said NO........
Waited a few seconds then chirped “but they STING. Like nothing else of this earth.....
And when he tensed up it stung him twice
He cried like a girl
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:09 pm to dstone12
Ran into one of these not long after I first moved to the U.S in my in laws backyard. Thankfully having grown up in Australia I knew better than to frick with something that I had no idea about after watching that.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:10 pm to charlestonchief
I just saw one about a week ago here in North central Alabama. I was surprised because I haven’t seen one in years.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:45 pm to charlestonchief
Got stung by one when I was visiting relatives up near Ringgold, La when I was a kid. Holy Moly, it was painful.
I occasionally see one wander into my carport area in Prairieville.
I occasionally see one wander into my carport area in Prairieville.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:57 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
I looked it up, it surprised me when it crawled across the patio, I stomped it then researched it!
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 7:58 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:11 pm to charlestonchief
Some of yall must enjoy having yellow jacket, ground hornet, and bumblebee nests in your yard. These cowkillers are natural predators of yellowjackets, bumblebees, etc. I never kill one for that reason. And I know not to walk barefooted in the yard...
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:15 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
Not an ant. It's a wingless wasp. Look it up.Yet, when you look it up, the common name is ant.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:33 pm to AlxTgr
Yea, I was stung by one when I was about 8. I let it crowd all over my hand, but when I grabbed it all Hell broke loose. Fricker made some noise then it was like Sodom and Gamorra caught the rath of God inside my finger
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