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 ...

Velvet ants' bodies are also rounded, meaning that attempted bites and stings tend not to do any damage ... This stinger belongs to the red velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis), a species that is ...

The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor ... looks like an enormous, bright red ant. It walks around during the day ...