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Tarantula hawk

Pepsis grossa

Tentang nama: The wasps are named after their prey: they hunt tarantula spiders, which gives them the name tarantula hawk.1

Sakit sahajaIa sakit, tetapi tidak akan mencederakan kamu dengan serius.

Lebah, penyengat & tebuan

SengatanMakan: Daging

Bahaya kepada manusia: MenyakitkanIa boleh jadi sangat sakit, tetapi hampir tidak pernah serius.

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

Hidup di

Southern United States (as far north as Kansas), Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean1

Amerika Utara, Amerika Selatan

Laman utama

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

Panjang

2.4 cm hingga 5.1 cm (0.9 in hingga 2 in)1

Kelajuan maksimum

kira-kira 45 km/j (28 mph)

Terbang, anggaran kasar

Apa yang ia makan?

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

Gambar Tarantula hawk — Tarantula hawk. Gambar: Niklas299. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Cara mengenalinya

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

Sering dikelirukan dengan: 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

Kuasa bisa

Sengatan

Bisa keluar melalui penyengat.

Apa kesan bisanya?

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

Berapa bahaya ia kepada manusia?

Bahaya kepada manusia: MenyakitkanIa boleh jadi sangat sakit, tetapi hampir tidak pernah serius.

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

Apa yang ia buat apabila takut?

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

Jika ia menyengat

Kikis keluar sengat lebah dan sejukkan tempat itu.
Jika orang itu sukar bernafas, muka atau tekak membengkak, atau rasa nak pengsan, ini kecemasan alahan: hubungi nombor kecemasan dan guna pen adrenalinanya jika dia ada.

Sentiasa hubungi nombor kecemasan dahulu (112, 000, 911). Ini panduan pertolongan cemas umum, bukan nasihat perubatan. Asas pertolongan cemas

Kekal selamat

Jangan sesekali sentuh, tangkap atau usik haiwan liar, walaupun yang kecil, dan walaupun ia nampak tidur atau mati.
Beri ia ruang. Jika kamu terjumpa, bertenang, undur perlahan-lahan dan biarkan ia pergi.
Jika ia menyengat kamu: bertenang, jangan bergerak, hubungi nombor kecemasan (112, 000, 911) atau pergi ke hospital dengan segera. Ingat rupanya, gambar boleh membantu.

Ia bukan mahu memburu kamu. Ia guna bisanya untuk menangkap makanan atau melindungi diri, dan ia lebih suka bersembunyi. Lagi tentang keselamatan

Di mana di dunia?

Afrika Asia Eropah Amerika Utara Amerika Selatan Australia & Oceania

Berapa besar ia?

Berapa panjang ia?

lebih pendek daripada jari kelingking kamuboleh terbang merentasi seluruh padang bola sepak dalam 8.4 saat

Berapa besar Tarantula hawk berbanding KAMU?

Hanya matematik dalam pelayar kamu. Tiada apa yang disimpan atau dihantar ke mana-mana.

Berapa laju ia?

Orang berlari pecut kira-kira 37 km/j (23 mph)

Tarantula hawk kira-kira 45 km/j (28 mph)

Kereta di bandar kira-kira 50 km/j (31 mph)

berguna untuk diketahui

Fakta

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

Pemecah mitos

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

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

Untuk pakar bisa

Nama saintifik: Pepsis grossa
Kumpulan: Lebah, penyengat & tebuan
Keluarga: Pompilidae2
Susunan: Hymenoptera
Benua-benua: Amerika Utara, Amerika Selatan
Anak: The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
Bahaya kepada manusia: 2 / 5: Menyakitkan3

Dari mana fakta datang

Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Pepsis grossa (iNaturalist): nama dan pengelasan.
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