Question Velvet Ants (Mutillidae)

Here are 3 different Velvet Ants i found this summer , they are also known as Wingless Wasps ... however the males do actually have wings . Note the extraordinary long sting on one of the 3 specimens , if you want to see something funny , then watch Coyote Peterson allow himself to be stung by a large Velvet Ant , he says it's the most painful one he had experienced up to then .