Beware of this little creature
 

Has anyone hadan unfortunate encounter with a red velvet ant, aka Cow Killer,while hunting or scouting? If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's largered fuzzy looking ant, only it's not really an ant. It's actually a wingless wasp that looks like alarge ant.Warning: DO NOT PICK THIS CRITTER UP. I found out the hard way that this critter has a pretty potent sting. Even with gloves on,it nailed me pretty good. I'd seen them often in the woods and decided to take a closer look at it. Bad decision. I figured it coudn't bite me through my glove. Well it didn't. It stuck its half inch long stinger right through my glove. Believe me, their sting is worse than a normal wasp. Anybody ever been popped by one of these things? If your in the woods enough, you will encouter one.I know there are plenty of them downin the south, but are they up north also?

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superstrutter, I had a run in with about 300 chiggers this past weekend.....I have chigger bites in places only chiggers themselves could think of hiding :)

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I once got bitten by a dancing bug.. but it was at a wedding.

So I have no idea really what you are talking about.

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lol isnt it great to have an itch by chiggers or a tick bitein that spot right during church or in front of your g/f lol i have had that happen many times unfortunately

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Steven, I have been itching so dang much that I have resorted to using creams only reserved for people that have a loaf of bread growing from between their legs!

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Nice, real nice. I must be chigger resistant. I hardly everget them, even after working in the woods most of the day. Their hell to get rid of. Good luck.

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lol that sucks badly, luckily i have only been hit by chiggers a couple times this year

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Yes sir, we have them in southern Texas too and them bad boys are hard tokill too....They like to hang around the cattlepastures around where i'm from....They do have a bite to em'.....As for the chiggers I guess I am lucky, I have been with people that got eat up by them, they had to take baths in clorox or something like that. I never have gotten themeven whenI was with the guy that got them so bad all day long....

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In the north country we have the black velvet. It has a nasty bite!!

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lol im sure it does have a nasty bite!

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Boy I'm glad we have a real winter here.........tends to keep the jurrasic wasps to a minimum.

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I haven't seen anything like that yet but I going to keep my eyes wide open now. Half inch stinger holy crap, sure it wasn't a scorpion?

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We have velvet ants here in MD, and it seems they're more abundant these past few years. When I see one (typically in a field, not the woods), I'll stomp it - they are tough to kill. I've never tested their stinging ability, lol.

Fortunately, they are not aggressive and will try to escape from you...

-fsh

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Never seen anything like that up here I guess its because our winters, real winters, are usually sub 0 most of the time so it kills all them little buggers.

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I seen one here in Illinois a few years back. Didn't remember the black stripes on it though. I just remember trying to find out what it was on the internet.

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There are several varieties of the things, different colors and markings. The ones we have around N. Texas are a little more yellowish orange. And yeah. They'll sock it to ya if you mess with 'em.

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that is one nasty lookn' little bugger. thank goodness we have the frozen tundra up here in the winter, kills off anything that looks like that. Now as for our state bird, the mosquito, people have been found drained of their blood!:D

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I got hammered by one of those bad boys about 30 years ago. I was going fishing with my dad and we were catching grasshoppers. I saw on of those crawling along and grabbed it. [:@] YOWZER!!!! THAT HURT!!!!!

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Never heard of one here in Illinois. After reading your post, if I ever do see one, I guess I will walk the other way.

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We call em cow ants round here, and yes i have been stung by one. Luckily he didnt get me that good and i was able to get him off of me. It swoll up pretty good anyways.

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Come on super...you are smarter than this. They aren't called Cow Killers for nothing.

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HOLY *%*&^%^%@&^$&*$^$& I have never seen anything like this up here.:D But we do have these things.

Bald face Hornet

These buggers hurt!! and they are tough!! Two of them were on a death match together and we dropped a railway tie about 4 feet long on them and when it toppled over they both flew up and chased us, I've never ran that fast in my life!!!:D

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I hadn't had them for a couple years, but this year we out up a TON of square bales, so now I have them EVERYWHERE(yeah, there too;)) They are driving me freakin' CRAZY!!!!!!!