Crawling along the underbrush of the tropical savannas of Brazil, there’s a powerful and mysterious insect known as the velvet ant. Actually a kind of wasp, wingless females of this species ...

But scurrying across this land of extreme whiteness is, paradoxically, one of the darkest animals on Earth: a species of velvet ant known as Traumatomutilla bifurca. With its furry exterior and ...

For velvet ants, sharing defences like colour, sting and stridulation may encourage predators to rapidly learn to avoid multiple species of the wasps from very few predation events. In northern Mexico ...