With its furry exterior and distinct black and white markings ... which includes more than 150,000 species of ants, wasps, sawflies and bees. Along with some butterflies, it is one of the only ...

Wasps, which include yellow jackets and hornets ... and brown coloring — and the bald-faced hornet — which is black and white. Note: The bald-faced hornet is actually a type of yellow jacket.

The species in question is Traumatomutilla bifurca, a type of velvet ant – which is, somewhat confusingly, actually a species of wasp. Some of these wasps ... distinct black and white markings ...