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Southern black widow

Latrodectus mactans
Ikufuna dokotalaSiipha kawirikawiri, koma kulumidwa kumafuna dokotala.
Akangaude ImalumaImadya: Nyama
Ngozi kwa anthu: YoopsaKulumidwa kumafuna dokotala. Imfa ndi zosowa kwambiri.

The southern black widow is a venomous spider that lives in North America. Mature females are shiny black with a red hourglass mark on their underside. Its bite can cause pain and other symptoms, but it is rarely fatal to healthy people.1

Imakhala ku
Native to North America, mainly the southeastern United States. Also found in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and established in Hawaii (USA).1
Amereka ya Kumpoto
Kunyumba
It builds tangled, three-dimensional cobwebs and waits in a retreat near them. One way it has reached Hawaii is through imported produce.1
Kutalika
8 mm mpaka 1,3 cm (0,3 in mpaka 0,5 in)1
Liwiro lapamwamba
pafupifupi 0,98 km/h (0,61 mph)
Pamtunda, kuyerekeza chabe
Imadya chiyani?
It eats a variety of insects, and also woodlice, millipedes, centipedes and other spiders. When prey is caught in its web, it rushes out, wraps the prey tightly in silk, and bites it. It then releases digestive enzymes into the wound and carries the prey back to its retreat to feed.1
Zoona!Chithunzi cha Southern black widow
Southern black widow. Chithunzi: unknown. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Mmene ungaizindikirire

  • Mature females are shiny black, with a red hourglass-shaped mark on the underside of a very rounded abdomen.1
  • Many females have an orange or red patch on the top of the abdomen, just above the spinnerets.1
  • Mature females have a body length of 8–13 mm, not counting the legs. Males are 3–6 mm.1
  • Juveniles look very different. They have a grey to black abdomen with white stripes across it, spotted with yellow and orange.1
  • Males are either purple, or look more like the juveniles.1

Nthawi zambiri imasokonezedwa ndi: It is often confused with the false widows (genus Steatoda) and with the closely related northern (L. variolus) and western (L. hesperus) black widows.1

Mphamvu ya ululu

Imaluma

Ululu umatuluka kudzera m'mano ake ikaluma.

Ululu wake umachita chiyani?

The venom contains alpha-latrotoxin, a neurotoxic venom that attacks the nerves. It causes pain and other symptoms, which are collectively called latrodectism.1

Ndi yoopsa bwanji kwa anthu?

Ngozi kwa anthu: YoopsaKulumidwa kumafuna dokotala. Imfa ndi zosowa kwambiri.

Deaths in healthy adults are exceedingly rare. No deaths were reported among 23,409 documented Latrodectus bites in the US from 2000 to 2008, though about 2,000 bites happen each year. Only mature females can bite people.1

Nkhani yabwino: madokotala ali ndi mankhwala (antivenom) kapena chithandizo cha ichi.1

Ikaluma

  • Sambitsa polumidwapo ndipo ikapo paketi ya ayezi kuti uchepetse kupweteka. Peza thandizo la dokotala ngati kupweteka kuli kwakukulu, kukufalikira kapena munthuyo sakumva bwino.

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.
  • Ikakuluma: 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

Ndi yaikulu bwanji?

Ndi yaitali bwanji?

Southern black widow yaitali pafupifupi 1,3 cm (0,5 in)Njere ya mpunga pafupifupi 7 mm (0,3 in)Ndalama yachitsulo ya 1 euro pafupifupi 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
yaing'ono moti ingakhale pa chikhadabo chako

Southern black widow ndi yaikulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWE?

Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chomwe chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina.

Imathamanga bwanji?

zoyenera kudziwa

Mfundo

1

In 1933, Allan Blair let himself be bitten by one of these spiders to study its venom in humans and to convince sceptics that it could be dangerous.1

2

Females will occasionally eat their mates after reproduction.1

3

Only mature females can bite people. Their hollow, needle-like mouthparts are about 1 mm long, which is long enough to inject venom into people.1

4

The brown widow (Latrodectus geometricus) competes with black widows for territory. In areas where they share space, it can displace them.1

5

Males live only about three to four months, while females can live for up to three years.1

Kuthetsa nthano zabodza

Nthano yabodza: A black widow bite is usually fatal.

Zoona: Black widow bites are rarely fatal to healthy people. No deaths from the US species were reported among 23,409 documented bites from 2000 to 2008.1

Za akatswiri a ululu

Dzina la sayansi
Latrodectus mactans
Gulu
Akangaude
Banja
Theridiidae2
Dongosolo
Araneae
Makontinenti
Amereka ya Kumpoto
Ana akhanda
A female can produce four to nine egg sacs in one summer, each holding about 100–400 eggs, which she guards in a silken container.1
Kutalika kwa moyo
pafupifupi zaka 31
Ngozi kwa anthu
3 / 5: Yoopsa3

Kumene mfundo zimachokera

  1. Latrodectus mactans (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Latrodectus mactans (iNaturalist): mayina ndi magulu a sayansi.
  3. Venom Wiki: mlingo wa ngozi, kukula wamba ndi kuyerekeza kwa liwiro ndi zathu. Ona mmene timazipezera: Mmene timayezera ngozi.

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