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 ...