Velvet ants are solitary insects. Males have wings and search for the wingless females on the ground. Once they find each other and mate, the wasps go their separate ways. When the female is ready to ...

Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...

But scurrying across this land of extreme whiteness is, paradoxically, one of the darkest animals on Earth: a species of velvet ant known as Traumatomutilla bifurca. With its furry exterior and ...

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be ... including the velvet ant, which is actually a hairy, wingless wasp. — University of Nebraska ...

Velvet ants are not actually ants ... the day in search of ground-nesting bees and wasps and lays an egg in the nest. A developing bee or wasp eats the egg and becomes parasitized internally.