The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may ...

marking the area's first sighting of this insect after an absence of over 30 years. This species has a red thorax with bold black-and-white markings on the abdomen. Unusually for a velvet ant, instead ...

The attachment was a scientific paper titled “The Indestructible Insect: Velvet Ants from across the ... looks like an enormous, bright red ant. It walks around during the day in search of ...