Red-striped oil beetle
The red-striped oil beetle is a large beetle, about 5 cm long, with bright red bands across its body. It lives in dry, sunny places around the western Mediterranean, including Portugal, Spain and North Africa. It is special because it can squirt a caustic liquid when it is attacked.1

Doole tooke ɓanndu
Nguru mum ina jogii tooke. Ina bonna so meemaama, lakkaama walla ñaamaama.
Hol ko tooke ɓanndu mum waɗata?
When attacked, it can squirt a caustic liquid, the same defence used by other oil and blister beetles in the family Meloidae.1
Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?
Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?
When attacked, it squirts a caustic liquid, and its bright red bands warn predators of this.1
So neɗɗo meemii ngal walla ñaamii ngal
- So neɗɗo ñaamii ɗum walla ina jogii maandeeji caggal ñaamde ɗum: noddu nimero urgence walla centre antipoison ɗoo e sahaa oo.
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 a meemii ngal walla a ñaamii ngal: wota a moomtu gite maa walla hunduko maa, loot juuɗe maa, heɓ ballal cafrol.
Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Tooke mum woni tan ngam wota huunde ñaam ngal. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo
Hol to e aduna?
Hol no mawniri?
Hol no juutiri?
ɓuri hondu maa tokooso rabbaɗdeHol no Red-striped oil beetle mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?
Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.
Hol no yaawiri?
Humpito
If a larva picks a honey bee as its host, it dies in the hive.1
The larvae change form several times during development, which is called hypermetamorphosis.1
Unlike some related beetles, the first larval stage does not wait on a host. It actively searches for one.1
Its larvae are only about 3 mm long, far smaller than the adult beetle.1
Entirely black and red-striped beetles are equally poisonous.1
Ɗo humpito iwri
- Berberomeloe majalis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Berberomeloe majalis (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
- Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.
Kala humpito e ngoo hello ina jogii limoore hollirnde iwdi mum. So men juumii, yaafo, men ko yiɗɓe kulle, wonaa jaaynde ganndal. Wiy men e [email protected], men feewnita.
Tooke e nguru mum


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