The 30 Most Beautiful Insects in the World
Velvet Ant
The velvet ant may be pretty, but it packs a punch.
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That the velvet ant can deliver a hellacious sting does not make it any less beautiful to behold. Also, they’re not ants at all but wingless wasps. The fact that they can sting makes them female, as a sting is a modified ovipositor. These colorful, beautiful bugs are covered with plush fur that gives them their name, and the fur is often red, gold, black, silver, or orange and prettily patterned. Males have wings, and they sometimes pick the females up and take them away to mate. Velvet ants are found in the United States.
The velvet ant may be pretty, but it packs a punch.
Tarsal Claw/Shutterstock.com
That the velvet ant can deliver a hellacious sting does not make it any less beautiful to behold. Also, they’re not ants at all but wingless wasps. The fact that they can sting makes them female, as a sting is a modified ovipositor. These colorful, beautiful bugs are covered with plush fur that gives them their name, and the fur is often red, gold, black, silver, or orange and prettily patterned. Males have wings, and they sometimes pick the females up and take them away to mate. Velvet ants are found in the United States.
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