The velvet ant is named for the hairs on its body. A Valley pest control expert told ABC15 it's actually not an ant, but a female wasp without wings. The males will be hairy, but not as fluffy as ...

It seems like we've seen them all, fromscorpionstocamel spiders, it's just one creepy Arizona creature after another. Add this one to the list: Velvet ant, which is far from being soft and cuddly.

A female velvet ant searches for a bee nest to lay her eggs in. To see a larger image, click here. Photo by Jeff Mitton. A brilliant insect searched through the gravel of Cathedral Valley in Capitol ...

A brilliant insect searched through the gravel of Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park, turning over smaller pebbles, thrusting its head into crevices and soft dirt. Its head and legs and… ...

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.

The thistledown velvet ant, which is actually a wasp, resembles creosote fuzz. But mimicry isn’t the reason, a new study suggests. By Sabrina Imbler At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave ...

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, ...

A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that let it deliver excruciating pain to a variety of other animals ...

A simulation of an ant’s eye vision. Trevor Murray, Author provided When things get smaller. Ants vary dramatically in size. There are big ants, such as Australia’s Bull ants that can range ...

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 ...

Traumatomutilla bifurca, a velvet ant — which is actually a wasp — known for its distinct black and white markings, found in a dry shrub desert in Brazil called the Caatinga.