Instead, they are a type of wingless parasitic wasp. Its venom is painful to all ... In 2016, the entomologist Justin Schmidt described a velvet ant sting as akin to getting hot oil from the ...

The scarlet velvet ant is very well known for its extremely painful sting. Less well known is that the velvet ant is not actually an ant at all—it is a type of wingless parasitic wasp.

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...