The tarantula hawk earned a top score of four, making its sting almost unbearably painful. It's considered about as painful as the warrior wasp's sting, and slightly more painful than that of a velvet ...

In over 100 observed interactions between velvet ants and potential predators (including toads, lizards and shrews), only one wasp was successfully consumed. How painful is a velvet ant's sting? A ...

The scarlet velvet ant is very well known for its extremely painful sting. Less well known is that the velvet ant is not actually an ant at all—it is a type of wingless parasitic wasp. The ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

the researchers propose that the wasps’ ultra-black is related to protection from predators. Velvet ants are already known as “indestructible insects” because of their painful stings ...

Ants may seem harmless, but some species pose serious threats due to their venom, aggressive behavior, or destructive habits.