The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may ...

For example, an unnamed nocturnal species scores 1.5, making it less painful than a western honeybee, whereas the glorious or thistledown velvet ant (Dasymutilla gloriosa) matches the bee with a score ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a ... and slightly more painful than that of a velvet ant. Tarantula hawks are fairly docile unless provoked, although the ...

An eastern variety, called a cow killer, looks like an enormous, bright red ant. It walks around ... of students how impressively long a velvet ant stinger is. Trip and the others watched me ...