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 ...

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 ...