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 species in question is Traumatomutilla bifurca, a type of velvet ant – which is, somewhat confusingly, actually a species of wasp. Some of these wasps don't have any wings, but they do have ...

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.

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 ...