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 ...

For instance, many of the formicine slave-makers like P. breviceps are red ants that enslave other formicine ants which are black ants. Thus, when one opens a mound and sees red and black ants ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black, brown, red, or yellow. Ants look much like termites, and the two are often confused. Ants can be identified by ...

First, it’s important to note that red ant is a general term referring to color rather than a specific species. Just as there ...

Most of us divide ants into red and black ants and ants that bite and those that do not. The earth’s bio-diversity is a large canvas where ants play a major role. “There are 11,931 species of ...

And, according to a study led by Lopez and published earlier this month in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, velvet ants have another claim to fame: The black parts of females possess a ...