How can I breed velvet Ants

[exotics collective]

I was wondering if anyone knows how to breed velvet Ants because I'm all about unique animals and I'm also wanting to try to breed them

 

[Scourge]

Won't be easy in captivity - I think the larvae all species of velvet ants are parasitoids of bee and wasp larvae.

 

[sparticus]

The life cycle would definitely make reproduction challenging. Looks like this species lay one egg per host nest, you're gonna need a lot of bee nests...

Dasymutilla occidentalis

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