Velvet Ant

So I went jogging this evening and came across a very strange insect. Beautiful, but strange. Me being the nerd that I am had to look it up on the internet to see what it was. Thankfully it had very distinguishing characteristics so I figured it out pretty fast. It was a female "cow killer" or "velvet ant". It's a wasp that looks like an ant and has a terrible sting--so bad that it's called a 'cow killer'. Glad I didn't get too close. I didn't even know that wasps could not have wings...apparently the males have wings and they swoop down and pick up the females. Poor thing. No wonder she was scurrying around frantically.