Also: cow killers are not actually ants. They are wingless wasps. What Should You Do About Cicada Killer Wasps? In general, ...

When you see a red velvet ant, the first thing you will probably ask yourself is “what the heck is that thing?” It kind of looks like a giant ant, but it also looks like a wingless wasp. They ...

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 ...

The Guánica Dry Forest-recognized as an International Biosphere Reserve- is the habitat of a new species of wasp recently discovered by a group of scientists, a finding that, according to experts ...

Her wingless male offspring mate with the winged female offspring (yes, ... “There’s no fig wasp in there by the time people are eating the fruit,” says Ferguson.

Female pincer wasps have front legs modified with a pinching apparatus, allowing them to firmly grasp hosts when they lay eggs. These wingless hunters, with large eyes and slender legs, ...

Wingless male fig wasps are the first to crawl out into the fig’s interior and they’ll battle with each other between fertilizing their sisters(!) who are still trapped in their galls.

Panda ants are actually wasps masquerading as an adorable ant, ... Despite the name, panda ants are a type of wasp belonging to the Mutillidae family, whose wingless females resemble large, ...

Silverfish are a type of wingless insect that lives worldwide, including throughout the United States. They tend to occupy gardens in places with high moisture levels, such as under piles of ...

For a start, not all termites have wings, so if you see a wingless insect it's more likely to be a termite than a flying ant. However, both species do have wings, as well as six legs and similar ...

Despite the name, the Eastern Velvet Ant is actually a wingless wasp, though these colorful insects look a lot like ants. The black and orange-red bug with a long ovipositor, ...