The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may ...
This stinger belongs to the red velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis ... feeling like 'hot oil from the deep fryer spilling over your hand'. Velvet ants are sometimes called cow killers due to the ...
The Scarlet Velvet Ant, which is actually a type of wasp, has a sting so painful that it feels like hot oil spilling over ...
Velvet ants are not actually ants ... An eastern variety, called a cow killer, looks like an enormous, bright red ant. It walks around during the day in search of ground-nesting bees and wasps ...