The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may appreciate the attached.” The attachment was a scientific paper titled ...

Some ants have wings, which are longer in the front and ... The ants are a significant threat to the island’s endemic population of red crabs, displacing the crustaceans from their burrows ...

Each summer, there comes a moment when we suddenly notice that the ground is crawling with large winged ants. Then the air seems to be full of them and we find ourselves ducking and diving, trying not ...

An eastern variety, called a cow killer, looks like an enormous, bright red ant. It walks around ... Only male velvet ants have wings and, of course, male wasps and bees don’t sting.