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Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Posted By: Saguaro
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    This one was photographed on the east side of Tucson, AZ on top of Reddington Pass. It was running across the ground quickly ...Click Here for full article

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Paper Wasps in the Desert
Posted By: Saguaro
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    Mustard yellow paper wasps (Polistes) are more slender than bees and have a severe constriction between the thorax and abdome ...Click Here for full article

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Quick Tick Facts
Posted By: Spear-Bar Kennels
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    Tick is the common name for the small arachnids (mites). Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living on the blood of ...Click Here for full article

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Female Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Posted By: Bubba
Posted: Sat Jul 5 2008

    The flightless solitary Wasps are Order Hymenoptera/ Family Mutillidae. Sacken’s Velvet Ant eats bees and wasps. The hairs al ...Click Here for full article

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We were minding our own business the other day when a swarm of bees suddenly appeared overhead. They moved past the yard we were in and went across the alley to a shed in the back yard of another house

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Swarm of Bees in South Tucson
Posted by:
Joe F
Posted on: Sat Apr 12 2008

These are some pictures of some a spider found in a backyard in South Tucson. It may be a Sheet web Spider (Family Linyphiidae)

Sheet web Spider (Family Linyphiidae)
Posted by:
JiveOne
Posted on: Thu Sep 20 2007


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