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

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

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 ...