Pine processionary
The pine processionary is a moth whose caterpillars are famous for marching in long, nose-to-tail lines through pine woods. Their hairs cause painful rashes and eye irritation, and they can strip the needles from whole trees. It lives around the Mediterranean and is spreading north.1

Mmene ungaizindikirire
- Caterpillars are orange-brown and hairy, with blue bands.1
- Large silken nests in pine trees, often with several in one tree and signs of stripped needles.1
- Caterpillars move in single-file processions, usually at night and when leaving the tree to pupate.1
- Adults have predominantly light brown forewings with brown markings and white hindwings.1
- Adult males have a crescent marking on the wings and are larger than the oak processionary.1
Nthawi zambiri imasokonezedwa ndi: The oak processionary (Thaumetopoea processionea) is smaller as an adult, has an indistinct wing marking rather than a crescent, and lives in broad-leaved rather than coniferous forests. The pale eggar moth has no crescent marking on its wings.1
Mphamvu ya ululu
Ubweya waung'ono kapena tsitsi laminga zimadukira pakhungu ndi kulasa.
Ululu wake umachita chiyani?
The species is not venomous. Its caterpillars have hairs containing an irritant chemical called thaumetopoein, which causes skin rashes (urticaria) and eye irritation on contact. Some people may have an allergic reaction. The hairs of fifth-stage larvae can also break off and spread across nearby exposed skin.1
Ndi yoopsa bwanji kwa anthu?
Ngozi kwa anthu: YopwetekaIngathe kupweteka kwambiri, koma pafupifupi nthawi zonse si vuto lalikulu.Simple contact with the caterpillar hairs can cause severe rashes and eye irritation in humans and other mammals. Some individuals may have an allergic reaction.1
Imachita chiyani ikachita mantha?
When stressed or threatened, fifth-stage caterpillars eject harpoon-shaped hairs that irritate any exposed skin nearby.1
Ukakhudza ubweya wake
- Pa ubweya wa mbozi zolasa: uchotse ndi tepi yomata, kenako sambitsa khungu. Usasisite.
- Polumidwa: sambitsa ndi kuziziritsa. Peza thandizo la dokotala ngati munthuyo sakumva bwino kapena akutuluka magazi mosavuta.
Nthawi zonse yamba wayimbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911). Awa ndi malangizo wamba a chithandizo choyamba, osati malangizo a dokotala. Zoyambira za chithandizo choyamba
Khala wotetezeka
- Usakhudze, kugwira kapena kuseweretsa nyama yakuthengo, ngakhale yaing'ono, ndipo ngakhale ikuoneka ngati yagona kapena yafa.
- Ipatse malo. Ukakumana nayo, khala chete, bwerera m'mbuyo pang'onopang'ono ndipo uilole ipite njira yake.
- Ukakhudza ubweya wake: khala chete, usasunthe, imbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911) kapena pita kuchipatala mwachangu. Kumbukira m'mene inkaonekera, chithunzi chimathandiza.
Sikufuna kukuvulaza. Imagwiritsa ntchito ululu wake kugwira chakudya kapena kudziteteza, ndipo imakonda kwambiri kubisala. Zambiri za kukhala wotetezeka
Kuti padziko lapansi?
Ndi yaikulu bwanji?
Ndi yaitali bwanji?
yaitali pafupifupi ngati kachitsulo komangira mapepala
yochedwa kuposa nkhono ya m'mundaPine processionary ndi yaikulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWE?
Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chomwe chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina.
Imathamanga bwanji?
Mfundo
Caterpillars in a procession hold together through touch from the caterpillar in front, which takes priority over the trail pheromone or silk.1
The caterpillars are one of the few temperate-zone insects whose larvae develop through the winter, living in silk nests high in pine trees.1
Adults live for only a single day, during which they mate and lay eggs.1
The Greek physician Dioscorides described the itching caused by this caterpillar in the 1st century AD, and Pliny the Elder recorded a treatment for it.1
Outbreaks are somewhat cyclical, with a period of 7 to 9 years.1
Kuthetsa nthano zabodza
Nthano yabodza: Fabre's caterpillars marched in a circle around a flower pot only because they were trapped on its rim.
Zoona: Young caterpillars' circular trails continue for as long as 12 hours even when they are free on a flat surface.1
Za akatswiri a ululu
- Dzina la sayansi
- Thaumetopoea pityocampa
- Gulu
- Mbozi ndi tizilombo
- Banja
- Notodontidae2
- Dongosolo
- Lepidoptera
- Makontinenti
- Ulaya, Africa, Asia
- Ana akhanda
- Each female lays an enormous number of eggs near the tops of pine trees, in cylindrical egg masses 4 to 5 cm long covered with scales that mimic pine shoots.1
- Ngozi kwa anthu
- 2 / 5: Yopweteka3
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Pine processionary (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Thaumetopoea pityocampa (iNaturalist): mayina ndi magulu a sayansi.
- Venom Wiki: mlingo wa ngozi, kukula wamba ndi kuyerekeza kwa liwiro ndi zathu. Ona mmene timazipezera: Mmene timayezera ngozi.
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