Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

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 ...

Bees, wasps, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of ...

A single wasp colony in your back garden could be removing as many as 250,000 aphids during a season. As expert and self-proclaimed “wasp lady” Seirian Sumner told the show: “They are the ...