How painful a velvet ant's sting is appears to vary depending on the species. For example, an unnamed nocturnal species scores 1.5, making it less painful than a western honeybee, whereas the glorious ...

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 ...

The scarlet velvet ant is very well known for its extremely painful sting. Less well known is that the velvet ant is not actually an ant at all—it is a type of wingless parasitic wasp. The ...