In the animal kingdom, scarlet velvet ants are known to deliver some of the most excruciatingly painful stings. These insects live on the ground, but they are not actually ants at all. Instead ...

The sting of a female velvet ant is one of the most painful in the animal kingdom. Now, researchers have discovered that these insects have multiple proteins in their venom that make it ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Their wallop of a sting has earned them another name—locals call it the cow-killer. Known as the velvet ant, this insect is technically a wingless wasp and the latest species to be found with ...

It's considered about as painful as the warrior wasp's sting, and slightly more painful than that of a velvet ant. Tarantula hawks are fairly docile unless provoked, although the threat of ...

It takes about 11 times more force to squish a velvet ant than a honeybee. Velvet ants' bodies are also rounded, meaning that attempted bites and stings tend not to do any damage. If the predator ...