With its furry exterior and distinct black ... happens, velvet ants, known colloquially to Brazilians as “sorcerer ants,” are actually a type of wasp, but the females, which are wingless ...

there’s a powerful and mysterious insect known as the velvet ant. Actually a kind of wasp, wingless females of this species (Traumatomutilla bifurca) sport striking black-and-white color ...

Velvet ants are solitary insects. Males have wings and search for the wingless females ... scientists carried out experiments with birds where some mealworms were painted red and black to look like ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black ... wasp species that closely resemble ants, including the velvet ant, which is actually a hairy, wingless ...

Females are wingless and resemble large ... Hymenoptera (sawflies, bees, wasps, and ants). Interestingly, although male velvet ants do have some black patches, these are not ultrablack.

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

Despite its name, the Velvet Ant is actually a wingless wasp. Found in the US, its sting is extremely painful and has earned it the nickname “Cow Killer.” Their sting is potent but not fatal.