Recording of a Velvet Ant. by RichardDevine published on 2010-08-02T20:23:58Z 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. Genre Alien, Insect Comment by Unregulated eargasmic 2024-02-22T18:40:32Z Comment by A Mantis On Shrooms 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 2021-02-15T03:06:59Z Comment by % Slowed this down to 20 bpm and removed overtones and flux and it sounds like it's constantly yelling! 2018-06-20T19:41:37Z Comment by open strings he hasn't even rested yet! 2016-03-21T20:22:15Z Comment by Deefex WWWWTTTTTFFFFFFFF?????!?!?!?!?!?!? 2015-08-20T20:14:54Z Comment by That Idiot 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. 2014-12-29T14:29:02Z Comment by veloopity wow 2014-12-12T13:30:44Z Comment by St. John Smythe Hail! 2014-04-19T00:36:39Z Comment by ellesper fun fact, velvet ants are actually flightless wasps (semi flightless anyways, only the females have wings) 2014-03-23T01:47:46Z Comment by Mike Sokol 1 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) 2013-11-29T05:45:58Z Comment by Hey Gorgeous :) This is weird.... 2013-10-29T11:10:39Z Comment by HECKFRICKER What an extremely interesting journey! 2013-09-18T00:56:08Z Comment by England Aston Finest wtf 2013-08-08T02:55:07Z Comment by ALifeinSound THEM! 2013-07-07T20:11:21Z Comment by audiofr3q Sounds like an irritated Dalek rom Dr. Who 2013-01-13T03:36:47Z Comment by yoduh gotta lot to learn yung ant... 2012-06-01T01:35:02Z Comment by UNCLEPUNKROK What is the phasey crazy warnin like sound it makes! 2011-07-16T17:40:10Z Comment by Dee Elfe this is amazing!!! wowW!! 2011-06-07T16:08:28Z Comment by Skanky Panky Records sounds like an ant on a skateboard 2011-05-13T11:54:40Z Comment by Audio-Dvice - The Tekhnologist Thats some quality recording bro nice!! 2011-03-22T19:55:49Z Comment by Caalamus You little *@#$%+! Give me back my kazoooooo! ...you're not supposed to play it like that, you're gonna break it! 2011-01-16T11:49:15Z Comment by Padlock @teleplayer: I'm pretty sure that's not him eating. Pretty sure it's the sound of him walking around. 2010-12-17T16:58:58Z Comment by Darkpolux True Rain severo 2010-11-09T13:42:00Z Comment by abdelf77 jungle concrete nice man 2010-11-09T11:08:38Z Comment by AJ ORBIT i think there's something in my monitors ... 2010-11-09T08:12:51Z Comment by XanderLarkin OMFG MY EARS BLEDDIN SH&^$# 2010-10-26T21:42:14Z Comment by mikecrain that is one Noisy World! ;-) 2010-10-20T20:55:05Z Comment by Pouff This is SERIOUSLY creeping me out! 2010-10-08T04:08:59Z Comment by Lemurian Conspiracy This part makes me laugh for some reason. 2010-09-17T02:41:20Z Comment by Justin Morgan Nightmare.... 2010-09-01T16:57:06Z