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re: Red velvet ants
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:41 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:41 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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Not an ant. It's a wingless wasp. Look it up.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, but you are correct. They are wingless, solitary wasps. They don’t bite; they sting.
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:43 pm to charlestonchief
Used to see them all the time as a kid in central Louisiana. If you pushed on it with a stick, it would chirp and make a singing noise.
Saw them all the time in my yard in Central and here in Fort Worth where I live now. My experience is they like dry sandy areas. Or maybe that just because they are easy to see there. Anyone with any outdoors sense could tell you to stay away from those suckers. Bright red and silky black are a clear danger signal.
Saw them all the time in my yard in Central and here in Fort Worth where I live now. My experience is they like dry sandy areas. Or maybe that just because they are easy to see there. Anyone with any outdoors sense could tell you to stay away from those suckers. Bright red and silky black are a clear danger signal.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:36 pm to Bigsampson
See them a good bit here in south MS. Dry sandy soil here.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:52 pm to BFIV
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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.
I’m with you. Frick a yellow jacket, guinea wasp, or any other mean little ground nesting SOB that will light you up unwarrantedly. Cowkillers are unpaid solo mercenaries against those shitheads.
I’ve never felt their wrath though. Until I get hit by one, they’re given quarter because I appreciate any ally against the aforementioned assholes.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 7:03 am to S1C EM
quote:Because regardless of the fact that they are a wasp, they are actually called red velvet ants. It's a false correction.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted
Posted on 8/6/20 at 7:10 am to charlestonchief
I got hit by one of them as a kid when staying one summer with relatives in the country. Hurt like hell and never want to repeat that experience.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:51 am to charlestonchief
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Have you guys seen/dealt with these in Baton Rouge area?
I have seen 2 this summer. One was in my back yard. The other was walking on the slab around the neighborhood pool. I gave them both all the room they needed.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:01 am to AlxTgr
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Because regardless of the fact that they are a wasp, they are actually called red velvet ants. It's a false correction.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:18 am to dstone12
Frick that!
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:24 am to Jester
I was full of beer one afternoon and picked one up to show off to my buddies. It was cool at first, just crawled around on my hand. It then proceeded to sting me on the tip of my ring finger. I swear the stinger must be six inches long. It felt like a needle got stuck through my finger all the way to my wrist. I grew up around them and knew better. The beer got the best of me that day. That was almost 20 years ago and I remember it like yesterday.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:24 am to Jester
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:36 am to Jester
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Because regardless of the fact that they are a wasp, they are actually called red velvet ants. It's a false correction.
I understand this point and said the same. Yeah, they are called velvet ants or we called them cow ants when I was a kid. Pointing out they are wingless wasps clarifies why it hurts like hell when they sting as opposed to a fire ant sting which is still painful. A lot of posts in this thread mention that pain. I assume it is similar to what it would feel like if we decided to play with a red wasp. Now that we all know this perhaps we won't play with them or instruct out kids to not play with them even though they are called "ants".
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:44 am to aTmTexas Dillo
I know I never want to experience it. Yellowjackets are bad enough. I got hit by something this year I never identified. It hurt for a couple of hours. Best guess was bumblebee.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:46 am to AlxTgr
quote:rub some tobacco on it bro.
t hurt for a couple of hours
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:48 am to AlxTgr
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Actually what?
I was agreeing with you. The original "not an ant" post you responded to was a classic ACKCHYUALLY post.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:49 am to WeagleEagle
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I was full of beer one afternoon and picked one up to show off to my buddies. It was cool at first, just crawled around on my hand. It then proceeded to sting me on the tip of my ring finger. I swear the stinger must be six inches long. It felt like a needle got stuck through my finger all the way to my wrist. I grew up around them and knew better. The beer got the best of me that day. That was almost 20 years ago and I remember it like yesterday.
It's probably a good thing you were full of beer once it happened, although I'm sure you sobered up real quick-like.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:51 am to Jester
I am slow...and old
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:55 am to charlestonchief
Never seen one in Baton Rouge, but saw them fairly often as a kid growing up in Shreveport. Fortunately, not got stung by one.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 10:18 am to Tuco Pacifico
Their exoskeleton is so hard for a reason. That's their armor when they invade a yellowjacket nest and lay their eggs to feed on the yellow jacket larvae. But yeah, they will detonate a nuclear explosion on you if they sting you. I've seen them get as big as 1 1-2 inches long. That's a powerful sting.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 10:19 am to AlxTgr
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I know I never want to experience it. Yellowjackets are bad enough. I got hit by something this year I never identified. It hurt for a couple of hours. Best guess was bumblebee.
True to my online name here I was releasing a trapped armadillo last year. I walked over an embankment and opened the trap doors and then I got hit five times by some sort of supersonic ground wasps. Yeah it hurt. I know all about wasps.
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