The Red Velvet Ant is not an Ant nor does it Kill Cows

While the males have wings and no stingers, the ground-based females having no wings and instead have stingers, the pain of which has derived the nickname "cow killer"; a sting so painful, it could "kill a cow." However, this name is colloquial and there are no know recorded instances of actual cow death from the sting of the "red velvet ant."

These wasps have parasitic and complicated breeding requirements and can be eliminated altogether by simply not allowing the right conditions for them to reproduce.

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