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Tarantula hawk

Pepsis grossa

O imenu: The wasps are named after their prey: they hunt tarantula spiders, which gives them the name tarantula hawk.1

Samo boliBoli, a te ne bo resno poškodovala.

Čebele, ose in sršeni

PikiJe: Meso

Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

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

Živi v

Southern United States (as far north as Kansas), Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean1

Severna Amerika, Južna Amerika

Domov

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

Dolžina

2,4 cm do 5,1 cm (0,9 in do 2 in)1

Največja hitrost

približno 45 km/h (28 mph)

Letenje, groba ocena

Kaj je?

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

Fotografija: Tarantula hawk — Tarantula hawk. Fotografija: Niklas299. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Kako jo prepoznaš

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

Pogosto zamenjujejo z: 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

Moč strupa

Piki

Strup pride ven skozi želo.

Kaj naredi njen strup, ko ugrizne ali piči?

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

Kako nevarna je za ljudi?

Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

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

Kaj naredi, ko se prestraši?

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

Če piči

Čebelje želo postrgaj ven in mesto ohladi.
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Vedno najprej pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911). To so splošna navodila za prvo pomoč, ne zdravniški nasvet. Osnove prve pomoči

Ostani varen

Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
Če te piči: ostani miren, ne premikaj se, pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911) ali hitro pojdi v bolnišnico. Zapomni si, kako je izgledala, fotografija pomaga.

Ne preži nate. Strup uporablja, da ulovi hrano ali se zaščiti, in se veliko raje skrije. Več o varnosti

Kje na svetu?

Afrika Azija Evropa Severna Amerika Južna Amerika Avstralija in Oceanija

Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

krajša od tvojega mezincazmore preleteti celo nogometno igrišče v 8,4 sekundah

Kakšne velikosti je Tarantula hawk v primerjavi s TABO?

Samo matematika v tvojem brskalniku. Nič se ne shrani in nič se nikamor ne pošlje.

Kako hitra je?

Človek, ki šprinta približno 37 km/h (23 mph)

Tarantula hawk približno 45 km/h (28 mph)

Avto v mestu približno 50 km/h (31 mph)

vredno vedeti

Dejstva

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

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

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

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

Razbijalec mitov

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

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

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime: Pepsis grossa
Skupina: Čebele, ose in sršeni
Družina: Pompilidae2
Red: Hymenoptera
Celine: Severna Amerika, Južna Amerika
Mladiči: The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
Nevarnost za ljudi: 2 / 5: Boleče3

Od kod so dejstva

Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Pepsis grossa (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
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