In Tupi, an Indigenous language, its name means “white forest ... known ultra-black member of the Hymenoptera order, which includes more than 150,000 species of ants, wasps, sawflies and ...

Why it's awesome: Despite the name, panda ants are a type of wasp belonging to the Mutillidae family, whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. They have a velvety white coat, with black ...

it also has intriguing implications for designing man-made materials Eli Wizevich History Correspondent The wasp species known as the "velvet ant" has a pattern of white and ultra-black coloration.