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Tarantula hawk

Pepsis grossa
Ko fii innde ndee: The wasps are named after their prey: they hunt tarantula spiders, which gives them the name tarantula hawk.1
No muusi tunNo muusi, kono gaañataa ma no feewi.
Ñaaki, ɗuggi e ɗuggi mawɗi JukkugolNo ñaama: Teewu
Musiiba e yimɓe: MuusɗoNo waawi muusugol sanne, kono ko ɓadii kala tuma ɗum wonataa musiiba mawɗo.

The tarantula hawk is a very large wasp that hunts tarantulas, which are big hairy spiders. It lives from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America to northern South America, and also on the Caribbean islands. Its sting is among the most painful of any insect.1

No hoɗi nder
Southern United States (as far north as Kansas), Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean1
Amerik Nord, Amerik Sud
Hello arano
Females hunt low over the ground, mainly around dusk and dawn to avoid the strong daytime sun. They look for spider burrows, using sight or scent, and may enter them to find prey.1
Juutugol
2,4 cm haa 5,1 cm (0,9 in haa 2 in)1
Yaawugol ɓurngol toowugol
wona 45 km/h (28 mph)
No diwa, miijo tun
Ko honɗun ngal ñaamata?
Adults hunt tarantulas, almost always from the Theraphosidae family. The wasp stings the spider to paralyse it, and the wasp's larva then eats the paralysed spider.1
Goonga!Natal Tarantula hawk
Tarantula hawk. Natal: Niklas299. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Hono anndirtee ngal

  • Black and orange colours, with several colour forms: an orange-winged form, a black-winged form, and in northern South America a form with a dark wing base, dark amber patches and a pale wing tip1
  • Females are 30–51 mm long; males are 24–40 mm long1
  • Jerky movements and a strong odour1
  • Males have 12 antennal segments, which separates them from other Pepsis species, which have 131

No jiibondiree e: The black-winged form is hard to tell apart from Pepsis mexicana, but that species is always noticeably smaller. The robber fly Wyliea mydas copies the tarantula hawk's black body and bright orange wings, and makes stinging movements, but it cannot sting.1

Doole tooke ŋatgol

Jukkugol

Tooke no yaltira jukkere.

Ko honɗun tooke mum waɗata (ŋatgol walla jukkugol)?

Tarantula hawks produce large amounts of venom. A sting causes immediate, intense pain that is short-lived, and it is among the greatest pain recorded for any stinging insect. The venom itself is not very toxic, so its defence works almost entirely through pain.1

Hono musiiba mum heewiri e yimɓe?

Musiiba e yimɓe: MuusɗoNo waawi muusugol sanne, kono ko ɓadii kala tuma ɗum wonataa musiiba mawɗo.

Only females can sting. The sting is considered the second most painful of any insect sting, scoring 4.0 on the Schmidt sting pain index, compared with 4.0+ for the bullet ant.1

Ko honɗun ngal waɗata si ngal hulii?

Its black and orange colours, jerky behaviour and strong odour warn predators that it can sting.1

Si no jukka

  • Ittu jukkere ñaaki nden e ɓorgol (gratter), ɓuuɓnu nokku on.
  • Si neɗɗo on no caɗɗa foofagol, yeeso walla daande mum no ufi, walla no yi'a o no ɓadii majjugol hakkille, ɗum ko musiiba allergie: noddu nimero ballal, huutoro stylo adrénaline mum (auto-injecteur) si o no jogii.

Adii fow noddu nimero ballal (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wanaa saaraangal doktoro. Ko adii nder ballal adiingal

Reen hoore maa

  • Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a jalnu kullal ladde haa abada, hay si ko tokooso, hay si no yi'ee no ɗaanii walla maayii.
  • Accu ngal nokku. Si a fotti e ngal, deeƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
  • Si gooto e majji jukkii ma: deeƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero ballal (112, 000, 911) walla yahu lopitaan law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal no walla.

Ngal faalaaka gaañugol ma. Ngal no huutora tooke mum ngam nanngugol ñaamdu walla reenugol hoore mum, ngal ɓuri yiɗugol suuɗaade. Ko ɓeydi fii reenugol hoore maa

Hono mawniri?

Hono juutiri?

Tarantula hawk juuti wona 5,1 cm (2 in)Ñippirde kayitaaje wona 3 cm (1,2 in)Telefon smart wona 15 cm (5,9 in)
ɓuri hoɓɓere maa tokoosere rabbiɗugolno waawi diwugol taccugol nokku bal fow nder segonde 8,4

Hono Tarantula hawk mawniri, si fooɗondiraama e AN?

Ko limoore tun nder navigateur maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee ka nokku woo.

Hono yaawiri?

moƴƴi anndugol

Humpito

1

The female chooses the spider's size and sex for her eggs. Fertilised eggs go on large spiders and become females, and unfertilised eggs go on male spiders and become males.1

2

Roadrunners sometimes steal the tarantula from a wasp and leave the wasp unharmed. Others beat the wasp against the ground before eating it.1

3

The tarantula hawk is the state insect of New Mexico. Almost 10,000 schoolchildren voted for it, and it was made official by a law signed in 1989.1

4

Wasps of the genus Pepsis are important pollinators of milkweeds, which are poisonous to grazing livestock.1

Bonnoowo fenaandeeji

Fenaande: The tarantula hawk's sting is dangerous mainly because its venom is strongly poisonous.

Goonga: The venom itself is not very toxic. Its main defence is the intense pain of the sting.1

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal
Pepsis grossa
Fedde
Ñaaki, ɗuggi e ɗuggi mawɗi
Ɓesngu
Pompilidae2
Ordre
Hymenoptera
Leyɗe mawɗe
Amerik Nord, Amerik Sud
Ɓiɓɓe tokosɓe
The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
Musiiba e yimɓe
2 / 5: Muusɗo3

Ɗo humpitooji ɗin iwri

  1. Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Pepsis grossa (iNaturalist): inɗe e ŋoordingol (classification).
  3. Venom Wiki: tolno musiiba, mawnugol aadaajo e miijo yaawugol ko amen. Ndaar no min ƴeewtirta ɗum: Hono min tolnirta musiiba.

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