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Mammoth wasp

Megascolia maculata
Tekirina kabiTekirina kabi eri abantu. Tewali kya kweraliikirira.
Enjuki, ennumba n'ennumba ennene KibojjaKirya: Ebiwuka
Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.

The mammoth wasp is the largest wasp found in Europe. It looks a bit like a very big bumble bee, and it lives in warm, dry places around the Mediterranean and across parts of Asia. Its young grow up inside beetle grubs.1

Kibeera mu
Southern and central Europe, north to Belgium, Russia, North Africa and the Near East; recorded in southern Great Britain1
Bulaaya, Asiya
Awaka
It lives in Mediterranean-type habitats such as oak forests, maquis and garrigue. In Russia it is most common around people, where manure piles, sawmills and compost heaps give its prey somewhere to live.1
Obuwanvu
4,5 cm (1,8 in)1
Embiro ezisinga
nga 45 km/h (28 mph)
Kibuuka, kuteebereza bwokka
Kirya ki?
Adults feed on nectar from flowers. The female hunts for the grubs of the European rhinoceros beetle in dead wood.1
Ddala!Ekifaananyi kya Mammoth wasp
Mammoth wasp. Ekifaananyi: Dr. Nasser Halaweh. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

  • Glossy black body covered in fine, downy hair1
  • Two yellow bands across the abdomen, sometimes split into four yellow spots1
  • Females have a yellow head; males have a black head1
  • Females can reach 4.5 cm, and males are smaller than females1
  • Looks like a very large, elongated bumble bee1

Kitera okutabulwa ne: It is often confused with Scolia hirta. That wasp is smaller and has a black head.1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kibojja

Obusagwa buyita mu ggwa lyakyo eribojja.

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

The female stings the beetle grub to paralyse it, so it cannot move. Its venom is used on prey, not as a defence for people. The sting paralyses the beetle grub so the wasp's larva can feed on it.1

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.

Bwe kibojja

  • Kalakata oggyemu eriggwa ly'enjuki era onyogoze ekifo.
  • Omuntu bw'aba nga tassa bulungi, ng'azimbye mu maaso oba mu mumiro, oba ng'awulira ng'agenda kuzirika, buno bubenje bwa alergy obw'amangu: kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze era kozesa empiso ye eya adrenaline (adrenaline pen) bw'aba nga agirina.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

  • Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
  • Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
  • Bw'emu ekubojja: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

Mammoth wasp kiwanvu nga 4,5 cm (1,8 in)Pepa kiripu nga 3 cm (1,2 in)Essimu ey'omu ngalo (smartphone) nga 15 cm (5,9 in)
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Ebituufu

1

It is the largest wasp found in Europe.1

2

It is a parasitoid: its young develop by feeding on another insect, a beetle grub, which dies in the process.1

3

Some researchers suggest it was the model for a gold Minoan pendant called the Malia Pendant.1

4

The European rhinoceros beetle is its main host, but it also lays eggs on the grubs of several other beetles, including the European stag beetle.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi
Megascolia maculata
Ekibinja
Enjuki, ennumba n'ennumba ennene
Amaka
Scoliidae2
Ensengeka
Hymenoptera
Ssemazinga
Bulaaya, Asiya
Abaana abawere
The female lays a single egg on a paralysed beetle grub. The wasp larva eats the grub, except its skin, then builds a cocoon and emerges as an adult the following spring.1
Akabi eri abantu
1 / 5: Kitono3

Ebituufu we biva

  1. Regiscolia maculata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Megascolia maculata (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
  3. Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.

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