On the Schmidt Sting Pain index, the red velvet ant’s sting ranks a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4 with 4 being most painful. For perspective, wasp and bee stings rank at a level of 2 on the Schmidt ...

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.

PORTSMOUTH — It only took 20 minutes for the giant red ant that has graced Market Square all summer to disappear. "It will live in our hearts forever," artist Nathan Walker said.

This makes the eastern velvet ant a very hard subject to photograph c... This insect is not an ant, although it is always referred to as an ant. It looks like a large red and black hairy ant, ...

The ant who uses his marbles to scale giant green bubble that just won't burst. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 12:28 EDT, 6 December 2011 . e-mail; 7. View comments.