On the Schmidt Sting Pain index, the red velvet ant’s sting ranks a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4 with 4 being most painful. For perspective, wasp and bee stings rank at a level of 2 on the Schmidt ...

Cow killer ants (Dasymutilla occidentalis), also called red velvet ants and eastern velvet ants, are a species of velvet ant. Velvet ants are wasps, but named for their fuzzy, often wingless ...

In fact, the red velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) isn’t an ant at all, but a wasp. At around 3/4 of an inch long, it’s the largest of about 400 velvet ant species in the United States. (I ...

Only male velvet ants have wings and, of course, male wasps and bees don’t sting. Whit Gibbons is professor of zoology and senior biologist at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River ...

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 ...

Meet the Brazilian Velvet Ant, a Rare ‘Ultra-Black’ Wasp That’s So Dark It Absorbs Almost All ... why do male velvet ants not have ultra-black pigmentation and instead reflect light at a ...

Only male velvet ants have wings and, of course, male wasps and bees don’t sting. Whit Gibbons is professor of zoology and senior biologist at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River ...