This makes the velvet ant’s color what scientists call “ultrablack” or “superblack”. Traditional black colorations reflect around five to ten percent of the light that hits it, says ...

VERIFY: This ‘mystery’ bug is a velvet ant…and it’s not an ant at all A WFMY viewer asked us to VERIFY the identity of this ant-like bug. Turns out, it’s a wasp dubbed the ‘cow killer.’ ...

Blue Velvet producer Fred Caruso remembers showing up on set one day to find David Lynch sorting through Polaroids he ... it's 9:30"), when he reaches down and finds a severed, ant-covered human ...

By James WoodfordThe sting of a female velvet ant is one of the most painful in the animal kingdom. Now, researchers have discovered that these insects have multiple proteins in their venom that make ...

A WFMY viewer asked us to VERIFY the identity of this ant-like bug. Turns out, it’s a wasp dubbed the ‘cow killer.’ This furry red-and-black bug spotted by an Alamance County, NC viewer ...