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The velvet ant is not really an ant, it is a wasp, they are name velvet because of the hair they have, it is also very thick and used for protection, the venom they is strong enough to kill a cow, which has given it the name the cow killer. The earliest-known velvet ants are believed to be specimens from the Dominican Republic preserved in amber for some 25 to 40 million years.
