Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other ...

This ant, which is actually a flightless wasp, sports a exoskeleton that mixes ultrablack regions with white areas.

Despite their name and looks, velvet ants are actually wasps. Many of these delightfully fuzzy insects exhibit bright, contrasting shades of black with red, orange or white. Their bold bodies serve as ...

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 ...