A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that let it deliver excruciating pain to a variety of other animals ...

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 ...

A team of biologists, neurologists and chemists at Indiana University has discovered why the velvet ant's sting is so painful to so many different types of creatures. In their paper published in ...

According to a study conducted on the human pain index, a velvet ant’s sting came in fourth out of 62 species of wasps and bees, with 58 being judged to be less painful.

A Massachusetts man said the sting of an Asian needle ant left him feeling sick. The invasive insect has been spreading ...

Guiellermo-Ferreira suspects these conditions are what lead to the female velvet ant’s powerful sting. And as with skunks and bees, its black-and-white colorations are aposematic, or warning ...

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If you’ve ever seen an odd-looking ant running across the ground, it might be a panda ant (Euspinolia militaris). This cool-looking insect is black with white spots, like a mini version of a ...

By James WoodfordThe sting of a female velvet ant is one of the most painful in the animal kingdom. Now, researchers have discovered that these insects have multiple proteins in their venom that make ...