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Mammoth wasp

Megascolia maculata

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Avieuls, vespras e calabruns

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The mammoth wasp is the largest wasp found in Europe. It looks a bit like a very big bumble bee, and it lives in warm, dry places around the Mediterranean and across parts of Asia. Its young grow up inside beetle grubs.1

Viva en

Southern and central Europe, north to Belgium, Russia, North Africa and the Near East; recorded in southern Great Britain1

Europa, Asia

Pagina iniziala

It lives in Mediterranean-type habitats such as oak forests, maquis and garrigue. In Russia it is most common around people, where manure piles, sawmills and compost heaps give its prey somewhere to live.1

Lunghezza

4,5 cm (1,8 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 45 km/h (28 mph)

Sgular, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

Adults feed on nectar from flowers. The female hunts for the grubs of the European rhinoceros beetle in dead wood.1

Foto da Mammoth wasp — Mammoth wasp. Foto: Dr. Nasser Halaweh. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

Glossy black body covered in fine, downy hair1
Two yellow bands across the abdomen, sometimes split into four yellow spots1
Females have a yellow head; males have a black head1
Females can reach 4.5 cm, and males are smaller than females1
Looks like a very large, elongated bumble bee1

Savens confundì cun: It is often confused with Scolia hirta. That wasp is smaller and has a black head.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The female stings the beetle grub to paralyse it, so it cannot move. Its venom is used on prey, not as a defence for people. The sting paralyses the beetle grub so the wasp's larva can feed on it.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

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

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

pli curt che tes det pitschenpudess sgular sur in entir plaz da ballape en 8,4 secundas

Quant grond è Mammoth wasp cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

Ina persuna che curra a tutta forza circa 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mammoth wasp circa 45 km/h (28 mph)

In auto en la citad circa 50 km/h (31 mph)

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Fatgs

It is the largest wasp found in Europe.1

It is a parasitoid: its young develop by feeding on another insect, a beetle grub, which dies in the process.1

Some researchers suggest it was the model for a gold Minoan pendant called the Malia Pendant.1

The European rhinoceros beetle is its main host, but it also lays eggs on the grubs of several other beetles, including the European stag beetle.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Megascolia maculata
Gruppa: Avieuls, vespras e calabruns
Famiglia: Scoliidae2
Urden: Hymenoptera
Continents: Europa, Asia
Poppins: The female lays a single egg on a paralysed beetle grub. The wasp larva eats the grub, except its skin, then builds a cocoon and emerges as an adult the following spring.1
Privel per umans: 1 / 5: Lev3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Regiscolia maculata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Megascolia maculata (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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