Luckily, they don’t enjoy interacting with people and will only come out of their mound if you step on it or otherwise try to disturb them. A black fire ant’s bite and sting symptoms can include: ...

It has ultra-dark markings that reflect less than 1 percent of visible light. There are about 8000 velvet ant species in the wasp family Mutillidae, named after their resemblance to large hairy ants.

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 ...