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Tarantula hawk

Pepsis grossa
Ibyerekeye izina: The wasps are named after their prey: they hunt tarantula spiders, which gives them the name tarantula hawk.1
Irababaza gusaIrababaza, ariko ntizakugirira nabi bikomeye.
Inzuki, amavubi n'amavubi manini Itera uruboriIrya: Inyama
Akaga ku bantu: IrababazaIshobora kubabaza cyane, ariko hafi ya buri gihe nta kibazo gikomeye biteza.

The tarantula hawk is a very large wasp that hunts tarantulas, which are big hairy spiders. It lives from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America to northern South America, and also on the Caribbean islands. Its sting is among the most painful of any insect.1

Iba muri
Southern United States (as far north as Kansas), Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean1
Amerika y'Amajyaruguru, Amerika y'Amajyepfo
Ahabanza
Females hunt low over the ground, mainly around dusk and dawn to avoid the strong daytime sun. They look for spider burrows, using sight or scent, and may enter them to find prey.1
Uburebure
2,4 cm kugeza kuri 5,1 cm (0,9 in kugeza kuri 2 in)1
Umuvuduko wo hejuru
hafi 45 km/h (28 mph)
Kuguruka, ikigereranyo cy'ugereranyije
Irya iki?
Adults hunt tarantulas, almost always from the Theraphosidae family. The wasp stings the spider to paralyse it, and the wasp's larva then eats the paralysed spider.1
Koko!Ifoto ya Tarantula hawk
Tarantula hawk. Ifoto: Niklas299. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Uko wayimenya

  • Black and orange colours, with several colour forms: an orange-winged form, a black-winged form, and in northern South America a form with a dark wing base, dark amber patches and a pale wing tip1
  • Females are 30–51 mm long; males are 24–40 mm long1
  • Jerky movements and a strong odour1
  • Males have 12 antennal segments, which separates them from other Pepsis species, which have 131

Ikunze kwitiranywa na: The black-winged form is hard to tell apart from Pepsis mexicana, but that species is always noticeably smaller. The robber fly Wyliea mydas copies the tarantula hawk's black body and bright orange wings, and makes stinging movements, but it cannot sting.1

Imbaraga z'ubumara

Itera urubori

Ubumara busohokera mu rubori.

Ubumara bwayo bukora iki?

Tarantula hawks produce large amounts of venom. A sting causes immediate, intense pain that is short-lived, and it is among the greatest pain recorded for any stinging insect. The venom itself is not very toxic, so its defence works almost entirely through pain.1

Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?

Akaga ku bantu: IrababazaIshobora kubabaza cyane, ariko hafi ya buri gihe nta kibazo gikomeye biteza.

Only females can sting. The sting is considered the second most painful of any insect sting, scoring 4.0 on the Schmidt sting pain index, compared with 4.0+ for the bullet ant.1

Ikora iki iyo ifite ubwoba?

Its black and orange colours, jerky behaviour and strong odour warn predators that it can sting.1

Niba itera urubori

  • Kuramo urubori rw'uruyuki uruharura, kandi ukonjeshe aho rwateye.
  • Niba umuntu ahumeka bimugoye, akabyimba mu maso cyangwa mu muhogo, cyangwa akumva agiye guta ubwenge, ni ikibazo cyihutirwa cya aleriji: hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi kandi ukoreshe urushinge rwe rwa adrenaline (adrenaline pen) niba arufite.

Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze

Irinde akaga

  • Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
  • Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
  • Niba imwe igutereye urubori: tuza, ntunyeganyege, hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911) cyangwa ujye ku bitaro vuba. Ibuka uko yasaga, ifoto irafasha.

Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Ikoresha ubumara bwayo kugira ngo ifate ibyo kurya cyangwa yirinde, kandi ikunda cyane kwihisha. Ibindi ku kwirinda

Ingana gute?

Ireshya ite?

Tarantula hawk ireshya hafi 5,1 cm (2 in)Trombone yo gufata impapuro hafi 3 cm (1,2 in)Telefoni igezweho hafi 15 cm (5,9 in)
ngufi kurusha agahera kaweyaguruka ikambuka ikibuga cyose cy'umupira w'amaguru mu masegonda 8,4

Tarantula hawk ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?

Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.

Yihuta gute?

bikwiye kumenywa

Ibintu by'ukuri

1

The female chooses the spider's size and sex for her eggs. Fertilised eggs go on large spiders and become females, and unfertilised eggs go on male spiders and become males.1

2

Roadrunners sometimes steal the tarantula from a wasp and leave the wasp unharmed. Others beat the wasp against the ground before eating it.1

3

The tarantula hawk is the state insect of New Mexico. Almost 10,000 schoolchildren voted for it, and it was made official by a law signed in 1989.1

4

Wasps of the genus Pepsis are important pollinators of milkweeds, which are poisonous to grazing livestock.1

Usenya ibinyoma

Ikinyoma: The tarantula hawk's sting is dangerous mainly because its venom is strongly poisonous.

Ukuri: The venom itself is not very toxic. Its main defence is the intense pain of the sting.1

Ku bahanga mu by'ubumara

Izina rya siyansi
Pepsis grossa
Itsinda
Inzuki, amavubi n'amavubi manini
Umuryango
Pompilidae2
Itsinda rinini (order)
Hymenoptera
Imigabane
Amerika y'Amajyaruguru, Amerika y'Amajyepfo
Abana bato
The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
Akaga ku bantu
2 / 5: Irababaza3

Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka

  1. Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Pepsis grossa (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
  3. Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.

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