The velvet ant larva then hatches and proceeds to eat the host pupa, before it itself pupates and emerges from the nest as an adult velvet ant. Their hosts can be spread some distances apart, and as ...
look like ants, and live on the ground. They are also called 'velvet ants' in English because they have long, velvet-like hair all over their bodies. Traumatomutilla bifurca, a type of ant wasp ...