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Natal Large velvet ant
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Large velvet ant

Mutilla europaea
Ko faati e innde ndee: The name "velvet ant" comes from the dense, velvet-like bristles (setae) that cover its body.1
Ina muusi tanIna muusi, kono ɓetataa ma no feewi.
Ñaaki, ɗuggi e ɗuggi mawɗi JukkugolIna ñaama: Teew
Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

The large velvet ant is not really an ant. It is a wasp, and the females have no wings and look like fuzzy ants. It lives in parts of Europe, Asia and North Africa, in heaths, moors, grasslands and woodland. Its sting is painful, but it is not aggressive.1

Ina wuuri e
Most of Europe, east to China, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. In Great Britain, mainly the south and east, and recently as far north as Aberdeenshire.1
Orop, Aazi
Hello arano
It lives in heaths, moors, chalk grassland and woodland. In England it is most closely linked to lowland heaths, where females are often seen running across sandy paths.1
Juuteendi
1,4 cm (0,6 in)3
mawnude mawɗo heewɗo
Yaawde ɓurnde
hedde 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)
E leydi yoornde, miijo
Hol ko ngal ñaamata?
The larvae are parasitoids that eat the pupae of bumblebees, and occasionally honeybees, inside the host nest. Adults feed on nectar, and on the honey stores of host bees.1
Goonga!Natal Large velvet ant
Large velvet ant. Natal: Michael Knapp. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

No anndirte ngal

  • Males are dark red on the tip of the mandibles (jaws) and on the thorax.1
  • The first and second segments of the abdomen have bands of long silver bristles.1
  • The tip of the abdomen and much of the body are covered in long black bristles.1
  • Females have a red mesonotum (the upper middle part of the thorax) and silver-spotted flanks along the abdomen.1
  • Some males are completely black, and colour varies between individuals.1

Doole tooke

Jukkugol

Tooke ngal ina yaltira jukkirgal.

Hol ko tooke ŋatgol mum waɗata?

The sting is painful. Its venom is much less toxic than the venom of a honeybee.1

Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?

Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

The wasp is not aggressive and only stings people when handled. Its sting is painful but less toxic than a honeybee's.1

Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?

When threatened, it stridulates by rubbing a raised structure called the plectrum over ridges on its abdomen, which makes a sound.1

So ina jukka

  • Ittu jukkirgal ñaaki ngal e ñiggude, ɓuuɓnu nokku oo.
  • So neɗɗo oo ina tampa e foofaade, yeeso walla daande mum ina ufoo, walla ina yiɗi yanaade, ɗum ko urgence allergi: noddu nimero urgence, huutoro stylo adrénaline mum so tawii ina jogii.

Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal

Reen hoore maa

  • Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
  • Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
  • So gooto jukkii ma: deƴƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911) walla yahu opitaal law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal ina walla.

Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Ina huutoroo tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reenaade, ina ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo

Hol no mawniri?

Hol no juutiri?

Large velvet ant hedde 1,4 cm juutde (0,6 in)Ɓiyngel maaro gooto hedde 7 mm (0,3 in)Pees 1 oro hedde 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
tokooso haa ina waawi jooɗaade e dow ceŋol hondu maa

Hol no Large velvet ant mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?

Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.

Hol no yaawiri?

moƴƴi anndude

Humpito

1

Their thick, armoured skin is so strong that related species in North America have been reported to escape from the mouths of lizards and frogs.1

2

Females can sneak into the nests of paper wasps and steal their food stores, possibly because they can disguise their scent so the paper wasps cannot detect them.1

3

The size of the adult wasp depends partly on the size of its host: wasps raised in honeybees are smaller than those raised in bumblebees.1

4

Females are wingless, but males have wings.1

5

Males die soon after emerging in autumn, while females hibernate over winter, sometimes in the host nest or at the roots of low plants.1

Feññinoowo fenaande

Fenaande: The nickname "cow killer" means the sting can kill cows.

Goonga: The nickname is inappropriate. Its sting is painful, but its venom is much less toxic than a honeybee's, and it is not aggressive.1

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal
Mutilla europaea
Fedde
Ñaaki, ɗuggi e ɗuggi mawɗi
Ɓesngu
Mutillidae2
Ordre
Hymenoptera
Leyɗe mawɗe
Orop, Aazi
Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
The female lays an egg into a bee cocoon, where the wasp larva feeds on the host pupa.1
Bone e yimɓe
2 / 5: Muusɗo3

Ɗo humpito iwri

  1. Mutilla europaea (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Mutilla europaea (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.

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