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Rusty-winged tarantula hawk

Hemipepsis ustulata

Davart il num: The common name 'tarantula hawk' comes from the wasp's habit of hunting tarantulas to raise its young.1

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

Avieuls, vespras e calabruns

PiztgadasMangia: In pau da tut

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

The rusty-winged tarantula hawk is a large wasp, with a matte black body and rust-orange wings. It lives in the dry Southwestern United States. Its sting is strong enough to paralyse a tarantula, which the wasp then uses to feed its young.1

Viva en

Southwestern United States, from California through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, north to Nevada, Oklahoma and Kansas1

America dal Nord

Pagina iniziala

It lives in the arid climate of the Southwestern United States, including the Sonoran Desert near Phoenix, Arizona. Territorial males perch on prominent plants at high elevations, 1500 m or higher, on mountain ridges.1

Lunghezza

5 cm (2 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 42 km/h (26 mph)

Sgular, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

Adult wasps feed on nectar from flowers such as milkweeds and western soapberry trees. Their larvae feed on tarantulas that the adult wasps have paralysed and captured.1

Foto da Rusty-winged tarantula hawk — Rusty-winged tarantula hawk. Foto: Ken-ichi Ueda. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

Matte black body with rust-orange wings1
Grows up to 5 cm long, among the largest wasps of its order1
Long legs, used to grapple with prey1
Males are smaller and more slender than females, with a more vibrant wing colour1
The antenna has twelve segments1

Savens confundì cun: Its relatives in the genus Pepsis look very similar. Pepsis wasps are more metallic black, with deep-blue striped patterns. The only reliable way to tell them apart is by the pattern of veins in their wings.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its sting paralyses a tarantula but keeps it alive, so the spider stays fresh food for the larva. The sting is described as powerful and debilitating. It is ranked among the most painful stings in the insect world on the Schmidt sting pain index.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

Its sting is among the most painful known from insects and is described as debilitating. The sting deters nearly all predators, including birds and lizards.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

Its painful sting deters nearly all predators.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

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

pli curt che tes det pitschenpudess sgular sur in entir plaz da ballape en 9 secundas

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Quant svelt è el?

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

Rusty-winged tarantula hawk circa 42 km/h (26 mph)

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

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Fatgs

The larva eats its living host from the inside. It hollows out the tarantula until the spider dies, once feeding reaches the bases of its legs.1

After paralysing a tarantula, the female may drag it up to 100 m to a burrow or cavity, where she seals it in with her egg.1

Males fight for territory in mid-air. The two wasps clash wings and spiral upwards, and larger males usually win and push smaller males off the best perches.1

Males gather on mountain ridges in great numbers during the breeding season, while females are rarely seen.1

Adult wasps do not grow after they emerge, so smaller males are at a permanent disadvantage when competing with larger ones.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Hemipepsis ustulata
Gruppa: Avieuls, vespras e calabruns
Famiglia: Pompilidae2
Urden: Hymenoptera
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: The female lays one egg on each tarantula she has paralysed. The egg is about 5 mm long, and the larva that hatches from it feeds on the spider.1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

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