Crawling along the underbrush of the tropical savannas of Brazil, there’s a powerful and mysterious insect known as the velvet ant. Actually a kind of wasp, wingless females of this species ...

This species has a red thorax with bold black-and-white markings on the abdomen. Unusually for a velvet ant, instead of searching out the nests of solitary species to lay their eggs in, M. europaea ...

The ants are a significant threat to the island’s endemic population of red crabs ... There are several wasp species that closely resemble ants, including the velvet ant, which is actually ...

A team of biologists, neurologists and chemists at Indiana University has discovered why the velvet ant's sting is so painful to so many different types of creatures. In their paper published in ...