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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Velvet ants are in fact a family of wingless wasps with more than 7000 species. The researcher Justin Schmidt, who invented the Schmidt sting pain index, described their sting as “explosive and ...