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Tarantula hawk

Pepsis grossa
Ku linnya: The wasps are named after their prey: they hunt tarantula spiders, which gives them the name tarantula hawk.1
Kiruma bwokkaKiruma, naye tekijja kukukolako kabi kanene.
Enjuki, ennumba n'ennumba ennene KibojjaKirya: Ennyama
Akabi eri abantu: Kya bulumiKisobola okuluma ddala, naye kumpi tekiba kya kabi kinene.

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

Kibeera mu
Southern United States (as far north as Kansas), Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean1
Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono, Amerika ey'Obukiikaddyo
Awaka
Females hunt low over the ground, mainly around dusk and dawn to avoid the strong daytime sun. They look for spider burrows, using sight or scent, and may enter them to find prey.1
Obuwanvu
2,4 cm okutuuka ku 5,1 cm (0,9 in okutuuka ku 2 in)1
Embiro ezisinga
nga 45 km/h (28 mph)
Kibuuka, kuteebereza bwokka
Kirya ki?
Adults hunt tarantulas, almost always from the Theraphosidae family. The wasp stings the spider to paralyse it, and the wasp's larva then eats the paralysed spider.1
Ddala!Ekifaananyi kya Tarantula hawk
Tarantula hawk. Ekifaananyi: Niklas299. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

  • 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

Kitera okutabulwa ne: 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

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kibojja

Obusagwa buyita mu ggwa lyakyo eribojja.

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

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

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: Kya bulumiKisobola okuluma ddala, naye kumpi tekiba kya kabi kinene.

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

Kikola ki nga kitidde?

Its black and orange colours, jerky behaviour and strong odour warn predators that it can sting.1

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.

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Wa mu nsi?

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Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

Tarantula hawk kiwanvu nga 5,1 cm (2 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

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

2

Roadrunners sometimes steal the tarantula from a wasp and leave the wasp unharmed. Others beat the wasp against the ground before eating it.1

3

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

4

Wasps of the genus Pepsis are important pollinators of milkweeds, which are poisonous to grazing livestock.1

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: The tarantula hawk's sting is dangerous mainly because its venom is strongly poisonous.

Amazima: The venom itself is not very toxic. Its main defence is the intense pain of the sting.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi
Pepsis grossa
Ekibinja
Enjuki, ennumba n'ennumba ennene
Amaka
Pompilidae2
Ensengeka
Hymenoptera
Ssemazinga
Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono, Amerika ey'Obukiikaddyo
Abaana abawere
The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
Akabi eri abantu
2 / 5: Kya bulumi3

Ebituufu we biva

  1. Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Pepsis grossa (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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