This group is more commonly known as velvet ants, a name that comes from the females' resemblance to large, hairy ants. Velvet ants are solitary insects. Males have wings and search for the wingless ...

The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may appreciate the attached.” The attachment was a scientific paper titled ...

Trip and I were standing beside a bush when a velvet ant with black wings landed right in front of us. I grabbed it and held on. We looked it over for a minute or so, marveling at such an elegant ...

Some ants have wings, which are longer in the front and ... There are several wasp species that closely resemble ants, including the velvet ant, which is actually a hairy, wingless wasp.

The species in question is Traumatomutilla bifurca, a type of velvet ant – which is, somewhat confusingly, actually a species of wasp. Some of these wasps don't have any wings, but they do have ...

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 ...