In a trial with a shrew, the small mammal repeatedly attacked the velvet ant, but every time the insect stridulated, the shrew backed off. In North America, a huge number of velvet ant species can be ...

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 ...

Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful stings, may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals ... including the velvet ant, which is actually a hairy, wingless wasp.