Tarantula hawk
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

Mmene ungaizindikirire
- 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
Nthawi zambiri imasokonezedwa ndi: 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
Mphamvu ya ululu
Ululu umatuluka kudzera mu mbola.
Ululu wake umachita chiyani?
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
Ndi yoopsa bwanji kwa anthu?
Ngozi kwa anthu: YopwetekaIngathe kupweteka kwambiri, koma pafupifupi nthawi zonse si vuto lalikulu.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
Imachita chiyani ikachita mantha?
Its black and orange colours, jerky behaviour and strong odour warn predators that it can sting.1
Ikalasa
- Chotsa mbola ya njuchi poikwangula ndipo ziziritsa pamalopo.
- Ngati munthuyo akuvutika kupuma, nkhope kapena khosi zikutupa, kapena akumva ngati akomoka, ndi vuto ladzidzidzi la ziwengo (allergy): imbira nambala yadzidzidzi ndipo gwiritsa ntchito jakisoni wake wa adrenaline (adrenaline pen) ngati ali nawo.
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.
- Ikakulasa: 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?
yaifupi kuposa chala chako chaching'ono
ingauluke kudutsa bwalo lonse la mpira m'masekondi 8,4Tarantula hawk ndi yaikulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWE?
Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chomwe chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina.
Imathamanga bwanji?
Mfundo
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
Kuthetsa nthano zabodza
Nthano yabodza: The tarantula hawk's sting is dangerous mainly because its venom is strongly poisonous.
Zoona: The venom itself is not very toxic. Its main defence is the intense pain of the sting.1
Za akatswiri a ululu
- Dzina la sayansi
- Pepsis grossa
- Gulu
- Njuchi, mavu ndi mavu akuluakulu (hornets)
- Banja
- Pompilidae2
- Dongosolo
- Hymenoptera
- Makontinenti
- Amereka ya Kumpoto, Amereka ya Kumwera
- Ana akhanda
- The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
- Ngozi kwa anthu
- 2 / 5: Yopweteka3
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Pepsis grossa (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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