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Large velvet ant

Mutilla europaea
Davart il num: The name "velvet ant" comes from the dense, velvet-like bristles (setae) that cover its body.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 large velvet ant is not really an ant. It is a wasp, and the females have no wings and look like fuzzy ants. It lives in parts of Europe, Asia and North Africa, in heaths, moors, grasslands and woodland. Its sting is painful, but it is not aggressive.1

Viva en
Most of Europe, east to China, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. In Great Britain, mainly the south and east, and recently as far north as Aberdeenshire.1
Europa, Asia
Pagina iniziala
It lives in heaths, moors, chalk grassland and woodland. In England it is most closely linked to lowland heaths, where females are often seen running across sandy paths.1
Lunghezza
1,4 cm (0,6 in)3
grondezza tipica d'in animal creschì
Sveltezza maximala
circa 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
The larvae are parasitoids that eat the pupae of bumblebees, and occasionally honeybees, inside the host nest. Adults feed on nectar, and on the honey stores of host bees.1
Propi!Foto da Large velvet ant
Large velvet ant. Foto: Michael Knapp. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • Males are dark red on the tip of the mandibles (jaws) and on the thorax.1
  • The first and second segments of the abdomen have bands of long silver bristles.1
  • The tip of the abdomen and much of the body are covered in long black bristles.1
  • Females have a red mesonotum (the upper middle part of the thorax) and silver-spotted flanks along the abdomen.1
  • Some males are completely black, and colour varies between individuals.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The sting is painful. Its venom is much less toxic than the venom of a honeybee.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

The wasp is not aggressive and only stings people when handled. Its sting is painful but less toxic than a honeybee's.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When threatened, it stridulates by rubbing a raised structure called the plectrum over ridges on its abdomen, which makes a sound.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

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Large velvet ant circa 1,4 cm lung (0,6 in)In graun da ris circa 7 mm (0,3 in)Ina munaida d'1 euro circa 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
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Quant svelt è el?

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Fatgs

1

Their thick, armoured skin is so strong that related species in North America have been reported to escape from the mouths of lizards and frogs.1

2

Females can sneak into the nests of paper wasps and steal their food stores, possibly because they can disguise their scent so the paper wasps cannot detect them.1

3

The size of the adult wasp depends partly on the size of its host: wasps raised in honeybees are smaller than those raised in bumblebees.1

4

Females are wingless, but males have wings.1

5

Males die soon after emerging in autumn, while females hibernate over winter, sometimes in the host nest or at the roots of low plants.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: The nickname "cow killer" means the sting can kill cows.

Vardad: The nickname is inappropriate. Its sting is painful, but its venom is much less toxic than a honeybee's, and it is not aggressive.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Mutilla europaea
Gruppa
Avieuls, vespras e calabruns
Famiglia
Mutillidae2
Urden
Hymenoptera
Continents
Europa, Asia
Poppins
The female lays an egg into a bee cocoon, where the wasp larva feeds on the host pupa.1
Privel per umans
2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Mutilla europaea (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Mutilla europaea (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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