i've never seen a velvet ant, i'm always stuck with the hornets, i've seen a european hornet in my backyard, i always see yellowjackets, mud daubers and braconid wasps

Thanks for posting this-when I was a kid I used to hear this beeping sound after steping on them but it was different, slower, more high pitched-like some kind of robot(beep-beep-deet) sound(my ears cant hear this sound anymore)

fun fact, velvet ants are actually flightless wasps (semi flightless anyways, only the females have wings)

This is a brillian recording. They're uncommon where I'm from, but I would have recognized the sound. This is actually a wingless wasp.

Slowed this down to 20 bpm and removed overtones and flux and it sounds like it's constantly yelling!

Found a large Velvet Ant walking on my driveway today, and couldn't help but notice the odd sounds this insect was making. The recording is of the insect crawling around inside a cardboard box, before I let it go back into my backyard. The Velvet Ant, also known as the "Cow Killer" is actually not an ant, but a wasp. I recorded this with 2 DPA 4060 Lav's and Sound Devices 702 recorder at 24bit-96Khz. 


Recording of a Velvet Ant.

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