- and more of them too. It's like buying a yellow kombi - suddenly you see yellow kombis everywhere. Well I saw two more of them (Velvet Ants, that is) and now I know what they're doing. As she runs around - and mighty fast she is too - she lifts up her back end and releases pheromones to attract a winged male for the purposes of mating. At the same time she's digging in the sand to find a bee or wasp nest that has pupae and lays a single, fertilised egg in each one. Her larvae will then feed on their hosts. Now that's what you call multi-tasking.
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