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Saw this bug/insect/spider? on a ranch in Santa Ynez, CA. Pretty fast moving-this was the only photo I could get. The creature is the thing in the photo that looks like two puff balls on a very black body. (The smaller puff is the front of the body.) Maybe a bumble bee? Did not appear to have wings... !Saw this bug/insect/spider? on a ranch in Santa Ynez, CA. Pretty fast moving-this was the only photo I could get. The creature is the thing in the photo that looks like two puff balls on a very black body. (The smaller puff is the front of the body.) Maybe a bumble bee? Did not appear to have wings.

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Perhaps it was a species of velvet ant (a type of wasp from the genus Dasymutilla). The females lack wings, and it appears like what you describe and vaguely see in your image.

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