Tarantula hawk
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

Yadda za ka gane shi
- 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
Ana yawan rikita shi da: 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
Ƙarfin dafi
Dafi yana fitowa ta wurin abin harbinsa.
Me dafinsa yake yi?
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
Yaya haɗarinsa yake ga mutane?
Haɗari ga mutane: Mai raɗaɗiYana iya yin ciwo sosai, amma kusan bai taɓa zama mai tsanani ba.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
Me yake yi idan ya ji tsoro?
Its black and orange colours, jerky behaviour and strong odour warn predators that it can sting.1
Idan ya harba
- Ka kankare harbin ƙudan zuma ka cire shi kuma ka sanyaya wurin.
- Idan mutumin yana fama da numfashi, fuskarsa ko maƙogwaronsa ya kumbura, ko yana jin kamar zai suma, to wannan gaggawar alerji ce: ka kira lambar gaggawarka kuma ka yi amfani da alƙalamin adrenaline ɗinsa (auto-injector) idan yana da shi.
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 ɗaya ya harbe ka: 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?
ya fi ɗan yatsanka gajarta
zai iya tashi ya ƙetare dukan filin ƙwallon ƙafa cikin daƙiƙa 8.4Yaya girman Tarantula hawk 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 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
Roadrunners sometimes steal the tarantula from a wasp and leave the wasp unharmed. Others beat the wasp against the ground before eating it.1
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
Wasps of the genus Pepsis are important pollinators of milkweeds, which are poisonous to grazing livestock.1
Mai karya tatsuniya
Tatsuniya: The tarantula hawk's sting is dangerous mainly because its venom is strongly poisonous.
Gaskiya: The venom itself is not very toxic. Its main defence is the intense pain of the sting.1
Don ƙwararru a kan dafi
Inda bayanan suka fito
- Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Pepsis grossa (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.
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Harbi