Io moth
The Io moth is a colourful moth from North America. Its adults are striking, with large eyespots on their wings. Its green caterpillars carry spines that release a very painful venom, so they should be left alone.1

Yadda za ka gane shi
- Males have bright yellow forewings, body and legs, and much bigger feathery antennae than females.1
- Females have reddish-brown to purple forewings, body and legs.1
- Both sexes have one large black to bluish eyespot with some white in the centre on each hindwing.1
- Mature caterpillars are bright green and covered in spines, with two lateral stripes: the upper one bright red and the lower one white.1
- Adults have a wingspan of 6.3 to 8.8 cm.1
Ƙarfin dafi
Ƙananan gashi ko ƙaya suna karyewa a cikin fata kuma suna harbi.
Me dafinsa yake yi?
The spines of the green caterpillars release a very painful venom at the slightest touch. Contact is not life-threatening to humans, but it irritates the skin and causes an acute skin inflammation called erucism.1
Yaya haɗarinsa yake ga mutane?
Haɗari ga mutane: Mai raɗaɗiYana iya yin ciwo sosai, amma kusan bai taɓa zama mai tsanani ba.Contact with the spines is not life-threatening to humans, but it causes painful skin irritation.1
Me yake yi idan ya ji tsoro?
When sitting head-down or when touched, adults shake and expose their hindwing eyespots. Caterpillars defend themselves with stinging spines.1
Idan ka taɓa gashinsa
- Don gashin tsutsa mai harbi: ka cire su da tef mai liƙi, sannan ka wanke fatar. Kada ka goga.
- Don cizo: ka wanke kuma ka sanyaya. Ka nemi taimakon likita idan mutumin bai ji daɗi ba ko yana zubar da jini cikin sauƙi.
Kullum ka fara kiran lambar gaggawa (112, 000, 911). Wannan jagorar agajin gaggawa ce ta gaba ɗaya, ba shawarar likita ba. Muhimman abubuwan agajin gaggawa
Kiyaye lafiya
- Kada ka taɓa, kada ka kama, kada ka tsokani dabbar daji, ko da ƙarama ce, kuma ko da tana kama da tana barci ko ta mutu.
- Ka ba shi sarari. Idan ka haɗu da ɗaya, ka natsu, ka koma baya a hankali kuma ka bar shi ya bi hanyarsa.
- Idan ka taɓa gashinsa: ka natsu, ka zauna ba motsi, ka kira lambar gaggawarka (112, 000, 911) ko ka je asibiti da sauri. Ka tuna yadda yake, hoto yana taimakawa.
Ba ya neman cutar da kai. Yana amfani da dafinsa don kama abinci ko don kare kansa, kuma ya fi son ya ɓuya. Ƙarin bayani game da kiyaye lafiya
Yaya girmansa yake?
Yaya tsawonsa yake?
tsawon tubalan gini na wasa 3 a jere
ya fi katantanwar lambu jinkiriYaya girman Io moth yake idan aka kwatanta da KAI?
Lissafi ne kawai a cikin burauzarka. Ba a adana komai ko a aika ko'ina.
Yaya saurinsa yake?
Bayanai
The caterpillars' spines are urticating, meaning they can cause a stinging reaction on contact.1
Adults live only 1 to 2 weeks and do not eat during this stage.1
After emerging from the cocoon, adults inflate their furled wings with fluid pumped from the body, which takes about twenty minutes.1
Females attract males by releasing wind-borne scent chemicals (pheromones) from a gland at the end of the abdomen.1
Many flies and wasps are parasitoids of this moth, laying their eggs in or on it.1
Don ƙwararru a kan dafi
- Sunan kimiyya
- Automeris io
- Rukuni
- Tsutsotsi da ƙwari
- Iyali
- Saturniidae2
- Tsari
- Lepidoptera
- Nahiyoyi
- Arewacin Amurka
- Jarirai
- Females lay clusters of more than twenty small white eggs on leaves. The eggs hatch within 8 to 11 days.1
- Yadda yake a cikin daji
- Not evaluated by the IUCN Red List and has no special status on the US Federal List. Populations in the eastern US are declining and becoming more localised.1
- Haɗari ga mutane
- 2 / 5: Mai raɗaɗi3
Inda bayanan suka fito
- Automeris io (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Automeris io (iNaturalist): sunaye da rarrabuwa.
- Venom Wiki: matakin haɗari, girman al'ada da ƙiyasin sauri namu ne. Ga yadda muke lissafa su: Yadda muke auna haɗari.
Kowane bayani a wannan shafi yana da lamba da ke nuna tushensa. Idan mun yi kuskure, ka yi haƙuri, mu masoya dabbobi ne, ba mujallar kimiyya ba. Ka gaya mana a [email protected] kuma za mu gyara.
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