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Pine processionary

Thaumetopoea pityocampa
Davart il num: The name comes from the Ancient Greek pityokampē, meaning "Aleppo pine larva", from pitys (pine) and kampē (caterpillar).1
Fa mo malBetg tutgarQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.
Rujas ed insects Pails che piztganMangia: Plantas
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The pine processionary is a moth whose caterpillars are famous for marching in long, nose-to-tail lines through pine woods. Their hairs cause painful rashes and eye irritation, and they can strip the needles from whole trees. It lives around the Mediterranean and is spreading north.1

Viva en
Southern Mediterranean area, North Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe; now spreading north into France1
Europa, Africa, Asia
Pagina iniziala
Coniferous forests, mostly pine trees, though sometimes cedar or larch. The caterpillars live in large silk nests high in the trees, and pupate in soil under the ground.1
Lunghezza
4 cm (1,6 in)3
grondezza tipica d'in animal creschì
Sveltezza maximala
circa 0,03 km/h (0,02 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
The caterpillars feed on pine needles, leaving the trees defoliated when there are large numbers. They come out to feed at night.1
Propi!Foto da Pine processionary
Pine processionary. Foto: unknown. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

  • Caterpillars are orange-brown and hairy, with blue bands.1
  • Large silken nests in pine trees, often with several in one tree and signs of stripped needles.1
  • Caterpillars move in single-file processions, usually at night and when leaving the tree to pupate.1
  • Adults have predominantly light brown forewings with brown markings and white hindwings.1
  • Adult males have a crescent marking on the wings and are larger than the oak processionary.1

Savens confundì cun: The oak processionary (Thaumetopoea processionea) is smaller as an adult, has an indistinct wing marking rather than a crescent, and lives in broad-leaved rather than coniferous forests. The pale eggar moth has no crescent marking on its wings.1

Forza dal tissi

Pails che piztgan

Pitschens pails u spinas finas sa rumpan en la pel e piztgan.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The species is not venomous. Its caterpillars have hairs containing an irritant chemical called thaumetopoein, which causes skin rashes (urticaria) and eye irritation on contact. Some people may have an allergic reaction. The hairs of fifth-stage larvae can also break off and spread across nearby exposed skin.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

Simple contact with the caterpillar hairs can cause severe rashes and eye irritation in humans and other mammals. Some individuals may have an allergic reaction.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When stressed or threatened, fifth-stage caterpillars eject harpoon-shaped hairs that irritate any exposed skin nearby.1

Sche ti tutgas ses pails

  • Tar pails da rujas che piztgan: auza els davent cun in bindel adesiv, lava lura la pel. Na sfruscha betg.
  • Tar morsas: lava e sfradenta. Tschertga agid medicinal, sche la persuna na sa senta betg bain u sanguinescha facilmain.

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.
  • Sche ti tutgas ses pails: 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?

Pine processionary circa 4 cm lung (1,6 in)In clip da palpiri circa 3 cm (1,2 in)In smartphone circa 15 cm (5,9 in)
var uschè lung sco in clip da palpiripli plaun ch'ina lindorna da curtin

Quant grond è Pine processionary cumpareglià cun TAI?

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

Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

Caterpillars in a procession hold together through touch from the caterpillar in front, which takes priority over the trail pheromone or silk.1

2

The caterpillars are one of the few temperate-zone insects whose larvae develop through the winter, living in silk nests high in pine trees.1

3

Adults live for only a single day, during which they mate and lay eggs.1

4

The Greek physician Dioscorides described the itching caused by this caterpillar in the 1st century AD, and Pliny the Elder recorded a treatment for it.1

5

Outbreaks are somewhat cyclical, with a period of 7 to 9 years.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: Fabre's caterpillars marched in a circle around a flower pot only because they were trapped on its rim.

Vardad: Young caterpillars' circular trails continue for as long as 12 hours even when they are free on a flat surface.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Thaumetopoea pityocampa
Gruppa
Rujas ed insects
Famiglia
Notodontidae2
Urden
Lepidoptera
Continents
Europa, Africa, Asia
Poppins
Each female lays an enormous number of eggs near the tops of pine trees, in cylindrical egg masses 4 to 5 cm long covered with scales that mimic pine shoots.1
Privel per umans
2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Pine processionary (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Thaumetopoea pityocampa (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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