Velvet ants are in fact a family of wingless wasps with more than 7000 species. The researcher Justin Schmidt, who invented the Schmidt sting pain index, described their sting as “explosive and ...

A team of biologists, neurologists and chemists at Indiana University has discovered why the velvet ant's sting is so painful to so many different types of creatures. In their paper published in ...

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 ...

The Thistledown Velvet Ant is actually a type of wingless wasp EdwardSnow/Getty Images While this ant has a delightful name, don't be fooled––its sting is extremely painful. It's also not an ...

The Cow Killer Ant is also known as Velvet Ant or Red Wasp. While called "ant," it is actually a wingless female wasp that can inflict a painful sting. The male wasp does have the advantage of flight.

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 ...

In the Skiatook area, velvet ants are commonly seen during July and August. Velvety red and black, they are actually solitary wasps, not ants. The female (left picture) does not ...

Cow killer ants aren't ants, and they aren't cow killers, but these wasps do have a painful sting. Learn more about these wasps and what to watch out for.

A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that let it deliver excruciating pain to a variety of other animals.

Velvet ants are not actually ants. They belong to a family of more than 3,000 wasps found worldwide. Around 480 species have been reported from the United States.