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Cow killer velvet ant

Dasymutilla occidentalis

Davart il num: The nickname cow killer comes from its extremely painful sting. It is called an ant because it looks like one, but it is a wasp.1

Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Avieuls, vespras e calabruns

PiztgadasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The cow killer velvet ant is a wasp that looks like a black and red ant. It lives in the eastern United States, from Connecticut and Kansas in the north to Florida and Texas in the south. It is known for a sting so painful that it earned the nickname cow killer.1

Viva en

Eastern United States, from Connecticut to Kansas in the north and Florida to Texas in the south1

America dal Nord

Lunghezza

1,9 cm (0,7 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

The young are parasites. A female lays an egg on a host larva, and the grub that hatches eats the host larva.1

Foto da Cow killer velvet ant — Cow killer velvet ant. Foto: Judy Gallagher. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

Black overall, with bright red on the upper side of the head, thorax and abdomen.1
Females have no wings. Males have dark, translucent wings and no stinger.1
Adults reach about 1.9 cm long, the largest velvet ant in the eastern United States.1
Quick-moving, and often takes a defensive posture when threatened.1
Adults are mostly seen in the summer months.1

Savens confundì cun: It is often mistaken for an ant because of its appearance and its common name. It is actually a wasp, and only the males have wings.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its sting is among the most painful of any insect, ranked 3 out of 4 on the Schmidt sting pain index. The venom contains a peptide called Do6a, which triggers a pain response in fruit fly larvae in laboratory studies.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The sting is extremely painful, ranked 3 out of 4 on the Schmidt sting pain index. This is the reason for the nickname cow killer.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

It has a thickened exoskeleton, runs fast and evasively, shows warning colours, makes a squeaking sound by rubbing its abdominal segments together, releases a chemical secretion and uses its venom.1

Sch'el piztga

Sgratta ora l'aguigl d'avieul e sfradenta il lieu.
Sche la persuna ha difficultads da respirar, unfladiras da la fatscha u da la gula, u sch'ella sa senta sco da svanir, è quai ina urgenza allergica: clama tes numer d'urgenza e duvra sia penna d'adrenalina, sch'ella ha ina.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Cow killer velvet ant circa 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

Ina persuna che va a pe circa 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

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Fatgs

Both sexes squeak to warn predators. Velvet ants rub their abdominal segments together, while crickets rub their legs against their abdomen.1

North American velvet ant species form one of the most intricate mimicry rings in the natural world, split into eight separate rings of mimicry.1

Males find females by smelling pheromones and by following their squeaking sounds. They carry the female in their jaws to a shaded, safe spot to mate.1

Females are wingless, a feature shared by all females in the family Mutillidae.1

Females are believed to mate only once in their lifetime.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: It is an ant because it looks like one and has the name ant.

Vardad: It is a parasitoid wasp. It is only commonly mistaken for an ant.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Dasymutilla occidentalis
Gruppa: Avieuls, vespras e calabruns
Famiglia: Mutillidae2
Urden: Hymenoptera
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: A female lays a single egg onto a host larva, such as one of the eastern cicada killer or horse guard wasp, and the grub that hatches eats the host larva.1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

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