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  • KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

  • read more about this red velvet ant aka cow killer from the university of nebraska

    link:

    lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resourc­es/cowkiller.shtml

  • Velvet ants are not aggressive and will try to escape from you. The females

    have a very painful sting if handled. The name "Cow Killer Ant" was given to

    the velvet ant because of the reputation of the female's sting. It is said that the

    sting is so painful that it could kill a cow. It's a good idea NOT to harm them !!

    because: they lay their eggs on the HUGE burrowing cicada killer wasp cocoons!!

  • awwew cute

  • This wingless wasp is known as a cowkiller ant because, as cows graze in fields they come across these ant, the ant then climbs up the cows nostril in stings the inner sinuses of the cow, causeing severe swelling which blocks the air way and suffocates the cow.

  • @mongwai89 why woud they call it the cow killer if it doesnt hurt duh it brings pain from a snake bite

  • eewwwww

    

  • @mongwai89 yes its like it cut of ur arm off, but your arm is still there!

  • KILL THAT SUM BITCH!!!

  • look above the comment section it says " This video is a response to UFO Haiti" WTF DOES THAT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH A BIG ASS ANT!??!?!?!?!?1/

  • i picked one these up once when i was younger.. and yeah it stung my ass like no other

  • IS LIKE WTF THERES NO WALL HERE!

  • it could be a red velvet ant

  • <8[

  • Omg when I was younger I saw like a huge version of this!! It was a lil bigger then this one and it was alot plumper well me being stupid thought it was so cute becuz of it's

    Color well don't be fooled they are not harmless I almost touched it but then Mai pop pop told me that they have a really bad bite so I ran

  • Its a female wasp like nicktimseamus said

    ://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/reso­urces/cowkiller.shtml

    First and foremost they will sting the crap out of you, like a hornet they don't lose their stinger...picked one up when i was a kid in Fayetteville, NC WOW is all i can say. One of my friends cut one in half and picked up the tail end, still got him and in a bad way.

  • Theres so many of these things in the are around my house..and i walk around barefoot alot >:(

  • I saw two of those in one day and if you try and step on it in grass it won't die. Kinda scary cuz their outside is really hard I guess?

  • Me and mY friend saw one of these and we had no idea what it was..we thought it was a giant queen red ant haha we kept it in a bucket all the then it couldnt walk when we took it out so we killed it to let it out of its miserY O.o

  • You need to burn it! muahaha

  • Yep, tried catching one just like it once thinking it was a huge hairy red ant, it stung like hell.

  • my sises bf works at a place and his work last year it infested with them and his friend searched it up and it was this thay can kill ppl

  • I just found today here morganton,nc

  • @raendril008 those things are basically endangered don't kill it!!!

  • I was a little prick when I was about 9 or 10 and I took a rock to crush one of these and they're rock hard! Their stings hurt beyond belief though. Worse than bees definitely.

  • i dare you to eat it

  • At LEAST! They dont fly!

  • gotta be careful with these things they have a really nasty sting. i was walking around in my driveway bare foot one time and um kinda stepped on one by accident and trust me it hurts like all hell

  • @MaximumCat "it doesn't rank among the worst" again, who says so? Because Schmidt ignored it? This is not transparent science. It is not objective. Who will volunteer to take stings? After sting from any species, resistance is likely developed, so that to some extent, pain from other future stings is reduced as the chemistry is not fully dissimilar. Therefore, taking bullet ant sting first could reduce effect of other stings later, leading to false conclusion "it's the worst."

  • when i was a kid i seen this and i dident at the time think it was dangrious but then i tried to pik it up and holy shit that was the worst sting ive evr got

  • eww

  • were i live in the summer these just walk in the roads i accidently found about 5 last year in TX

  • jason ant has the worst sting in the world

  • @MaximumCat it's actually a miniature cow without wings and a stinger, that's why it's called a cow killer, they used to be called killer cows.

    also you should have put the jack jumper of Australia not Tasmania

  • Cow killers are not "relatively small." As far as the sting not ranking among the worst, who says so? Justin Schmidt, a "scientist" who has nothing to say on the matter of other highly reputed species like this one (he also ignores the giant Japanese hornet & the giant cicada killer wasp & the puss caterpillar.) This is to no use. His study fails on neglected aspect fallacies. The cow killer sting is said to be "traumatically painful" site of sting matters & is venom sac really FULL?

  • Es una avispa

  • So why did the Schmidt Sting Pain index ignore this species? Why did they ignore the Japanese hornet, the giant cicada killer wasp, the Australian bulldog ant, and the notorious puss caterpillar? Ahh!! Because these are as bad or worse than what they discuss. But come on, really, a tarantula hawk sting is much more dangerous than a bullet ant sting, Brazilians take hundreds of stings in a ritual and recover, several of those wasps would push most people out of their bodies!

  • I got stung by what I think was a smaller relative of a velvet ant when I was a kid. I figured out how to pick ants without getting bitten, but then one day I see this really colorful little ant so I pick it up and...yeooooww! I was like "WTF? I just got stung by an ant!!"

  • hold one of them down with a stick and listen the fucked up unearthly noise they make.

    put a crayfish in the jar and when he grabs the ant with his pincers the ant will sting him in the joint with that long ass stinger she has and the crawfish will flip his tail and the whole arm with fall off the crayfish with a clank

  • wow first time i see 1

  • THOSE THIINGS HURT........

  • Aww It's so cute and painful!

  • if you get stung by those i hope you live by a hospital cus its like taking a knife and stabbing your self in the foot

  • just put wings on them, and they'll look like hornets

  • put wings on them and they WILL be wasps. Velvet ants are actually wasps, the males have wings, the females don't

  • really?

  • @krysta189

    yep

  • These gals look like they also have rather large fangs.

    Do they use the fangs for defence or do they only use their stingers?

  • i got stung by one of these guys, only one way to describe it, stick a hot needle in your foot and leave it there for five minutes. I was jumping on one foot and cursing for five straght minutes when i got stung by one of these.

  • amen to that 1!

  • lmao

  • Wait those things can legitimately kill a human? As in just one of them?

  • for all you people who think this is cute go out side and get stung by one there not called cow killers for nothing

  • I see these all the time in TX. those little f@$*rs are like transformers! i stepped on them about 10 times (w/ shoes) and they just squeak and twitch a bit then scurry off!

  • SQUEAK???

  • yea and a HUGE singer

  • i use to find those all da time when i lived in Kentucky

  • there really rare in florida i've only ever seen 2

  • they were pretty rare in kentucky too but i saw them aot on hte basketball court lol. weird. really cool though.

  • its a female wingless wasp

  • @nicktimseamus it is not a wasp

  • @ANJROYID yes it is

  • @ImNotHuman100055 ok then but they get upset fast

  • @ImNotHuman100055 i feel bad 4 the ppl who lives near then bc i went to a place and i saw then and i staped on them then and they came back to life. ( all of them started to chase me and is was bad ).

  • spray some windex on it works fast, or if your smoking blow on to it and close the cup

  • those things will bite the shit out of ya if your not careful ive heard they are very fast

  • red velvet, tiger ants,bullet ants.. all still ants

  • Used to have one of these come around my work every year around June until my A-Hole co-worker intentionally stepped on it to see if he could hear it squeal. Haven't seen one since.

    They are very cool looking. Won't bother you if you don' bother it. First I thought Spider, then I thought Ant, Now I know WASP.

  • its a ant.with a stinger and a armor plating skin. i had to catch one and do a project on it.i tryed to put a needle through it,but i coud'nt because it was so damn tough.

  • "its a ant" ????

    do you go to school? coz that made close to zero sense

  • dont u go to school? it made perfect sense

  • "its a ant" that's incorrect grammar, i'm assuming the two people that gave me bad thumbs are un-educated, like macederrick and you. he should have said "it's an ant" and also "and an armour".

    also when he tries to sound smart with "coud'nt" that failed because there's no "l" and the apostraphe is in the wrong place.

    LOL, you and him fail epically.

  • ok first of all no one gives a crap. second of all you have no life because no one fights about GRAMMER! and when ppl say 'cause they dont say coz. they say cuz. not an o. EPIC PWN! LOSER!

  • WorldOfDarkness, your little grammar lesson is itself completely riddled with grammatical errors. I counted fourteen.

  • Excluding the capital letters, please, enlighten us.

  • OK, if you insist, here is the post in corrected form:

    The phrase "Its a ant" is grammatically incorrect. I'm assuming that the two people who gave me bad thumbs are uneducated, such as you and macederrick. He should have said, "It's an ant," and also, "...and an armour."

    Also, when he tries to sound smart with "coud'nt," that failed because there's no letter "l," and the apostrophe is in the wrong place.

    LOL -- He and you fail epically.

    However, see my next post.

  • The point of my post was not to be a grammar cop. Here is what I was really getting at:

    This is a video about an insect. This is also YouTube, where incorrect grammar nearly seems to be a cardinal rule of posting. It takes away from the enjoyment of the video and from the comments thread if the comments are riddled with people nitpicking each others' grammar. Sure, I wish that more people here knew how to write. No, I'm not about to correct them all. It's annoying and ultimately futile.

  • So, essentially, I was pointing out the silliness of people going back and forth, insulting each other over grammatical minutiae, rather than just enjoying the video and making comments about the video itself. Especially when the two combatants both are glaringly incorrect in their "corrections" of each others' grammar, it is all the more silly and annoying. That was the point I was trying to make.

  • ok, you got him, but the fact is, we can put the first persons maturity to a 5 year old, the second persons maturity to a 14 year old, and your maturity to a grown man who has done some sort of english degree.

  • @JustAFocus Your British aren't you?? lol

  • It's a wasp look it up.

  • even ordinary ants can sting you

  • cool where are they from or were can u find 1

  • She is gigantic!!

  • its really pretty

  • how dyou plan on getting that out..? O_o

  • When I was young, I was playing a gameboy outside. Then, I felt this little little touch, then I saw what was thought to be a red bee, but now, I know what it is by this video. :D

  • And your lucky it didnt sting you. it could have had fatal effects

  • it doesent sting you it bites its not a bee it really a red wingless wasp it would hurt like hell though

  • >.> actually if you look it up they do have a stinger. and if someone is allergic to bees and wasps it can put them into anepalactic shock quick, and actually my uncle was stung by one. he said it felt like 20 or 30 wasps stinging the same spot.

  • Its prettty cool looking

  • I have 2 in front of me right now aaaaahhhh

  • we have bunches of those around my house lol

  • it is a wasp..the females are wingless

  • Looks more like a wasp without wings then a ant

  • thats because it ssimply the female of a species of wasp =) lol

  • In Maryland, It seems they have a Secret Colony somewhere cuz they're every where!!!

  • This is actually a type of wasp.

  • they can make a noise its sound like a rattle

  • oh my that is a wasp? that is crazy

  • it's a wasp that got knocked down by me days ago XD

    jkjk.

  • miriam is this u? if this is did u find it in ur house or some thing? im under my brothers user name cause i dont have one so its gaby

  • you know that that isn't an ant right? It is a wingless wasp.

  • there sting is like idk its not as wors as a bee iv i got stung by 1 8 times i picked it up lol thats b4 i new they stinged there not that bad it turned my hand purple thow

  • i found one a long time ago in alabama, only one I've ever seen here. I think it was brought here as a pet and got loose

  • i caught one and a lizard and it killed the lizard

  • you know these are actually wasps that cant fly and not ants.

  • there here in KY I thought it was a really big ant lol

  • i have a big nest of these things

  • That one little thing can kill a cow? what kind of venom does it have. How long does it take to kill the cow?

  • It doesn't actually kill the cow, it crawls into its warm moist ear, but freaks out when it can't get out so it starts stinging the cow.

    The cow then freaks out (I am pretty sure I would too) and starts banging its head against a tree to get the bugger out - usually knocking itself cold.

    It has typical wasp venom

  • OMG!!! is that the truth dude

    dang what a lousy way to go :P

  • I eat those for breakfast... lame.

  • i didnt know they stung i just thought they bit

  • Their sting makes a grown man cry

  • just how painful are they? I got swtung by a yellow jacket wasp once, about how many more times painful is that? and can they kill you?

  • these scare the crap out of me they in deleware

  • The name "Cow Killer Ant" was given to the velvet ant because of the reputation of the female's sting. It is said that the sting is so painful that it could kill a cow.

  • Caught one in central NC today myself. Its the first time I have seen one since I was a child. Took it home so my wife (who had never seen one or even heard of them) could see it.

  • That is a prime example of aposematic coloration.

  • they are probabbly the most painfoll sting out of wasps, bees, yellow jackets, and hornets. Iknow they are a kind of wasp

  • thats a wasp

  • its a type of wasp we have them in florida they crawl around like ants tho and theyre stinger is just about as long as theyre abdomen

  • um i lived in florida my hole life nd never saw 1 now n alabama der every were

  • thats really gross!

  • i found one of those while i was camping and i caught and kept it in a tank.

    those things are tough as hell.

    i was holding it down forr about 10 min with a shoe and it was like it was invincible

  • i second that... we found an orange one and it survived for three days, including an extreme temperature. My daughter forgot and left the bottle in the car on a scorcher of a day.

  • looks like a wasp but with no wings and its red

  • it is a wasp

  • this is actually a flightless wasp. there sting is extremly painful hence the name cow killer

  • Yeah, these ants actually freakin' squeak.

  • my daughter said it squeaked

  • it does

  • I found a white one in my back yard and he let me hold him. It was so special! He was soo furry, I wish I was a velvet ant!

  • black wasps ... 3 in my arm....that was a b*tch

  • once I got bit too by one of those and stung like hell I then smashed its head

  • i got bit by one of those those things sting like hell

  • ive gotten bitten by a velvet ant it was hanging on my skin!!! it hurt bad it was hanging on me with its teethe things but i believe those red and black antes r painfull!!!!!

  • they're not actually ants, they're wasps

  • i hate these things the actually make weird noises when i lived in nc i found ond s stopped it with a stick on its back and it really squealed like a pig plus the have retractable stingers that are long and black(SHINY BLACK) and the hurt but not as bad as a wood wasp

  • As several have stated, this is indeed not an ant, but a wasp.

    They hurt.

  • eww

  • my dad use to bring these home from work all the time i never got stung by them there fun to piss off

  • fricken scary!. God, where i am the only hrmfl ant is the red ant, and i have gotten attacked by many at once, does hurt alot, but no other type. So is the Saifur biffer than this ant or not. because i herd both. Is this the most dangerous or is the bull ant? confused :I

  • no the jumper ant is the most dangerous has neurotoxins that jolt you a put you in a shock and can kill you if not treated fast enough

  • Cool, lol, real nice, i will sure think about getting one of those for my pet igwana

  • don't do that it will probably kill your iguana

  • Next time let the mean basturd fight something lol

  • They are extremely tough I had one on cement and stomping on it with normal shoes doesn't work at all. I had to hit it like 10 times with large rock.

  • i used a hammer and it didnt work very well

  • Holy crap!

    I used a maul and the wasp broke it !! LOL

  • used to keep one of these as a pet! I fed him slices of watermelon. He loved it. He made a cool sound. His name was sparky. One day I came home and he had gotten out of his fishbowl. I didnt sleep for two days! then I sound him dead. I was sad... but relieved he didnt get me.

  • this is the female Mutillidae, a species of wingless wasp, they are non-agressive, but if threatened they will deliver an extremely painful sting, they have very hard exo-skeletons to protect them from the stings of other insects whose nests they invade, if encountered, it is best to leave them alone, but if they must be removed, use something hard to crush them, they can sting through thinly soled shoes, and can sustain a human step with little or no damage.

  • amzing

  • That's cool looking. I never knew these existed.

  • Nice, I caught one years ago (carefully!). I haven't seen one since then, but they are indeed beautiful little dangerous things.

  • i just went through basic training at Ft.Benning, GA. These little big bastards are everywhere, and they are damn near indestructable. Takes many stomps with combat boots to kill.

  • Welcome to the Army.....not matter where they send you there will be something there to put you on your ass.

  • i just cought one of these so i looked it up sopposidly the most painful sting in the insect world o and there screaming is fucking annoying

  • screamapillar

  • thats a female! its really not a ant its a wingless wasp!! if u get stung youll get 5 tecno shots in your bellybutton!!*ouch* so dont play wid them

  • i killed on at my uncles house, it started squeaking

  • my friend got bit by one of those today

  • Careful, they pack a hell of a wallop. Burning, swelling, blistering pain. Their beutiful though, and their bright orange color screams STAY AWAY!

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