Has a large, flashy, bright red-orange, fuzzy ant-like creature ever captured your attention? It may have been the infamous velvet ant — otherwise (fittingly) known as “cow killer” for the painful ...

My friend and I both saw a bright red fuzzy insect on the ground. Never saw anything like it before! She thinks it’s an ant, but I think it’s a wasp. What say you? Red velvet ants are wasps, but the ...

The viral Facebook post combines two common names for this insect. Old images purportedly showing a "velvet cowkiller" ant received renewed attention in April 2018: These images, as well as a near ...

The following is a News Release from LSU AgCenter: If you live in southern Louisiana and have noticed large numbers of tiny reddish-brown ants in or around your home running around in a crazy manner, ...