Mottled cup moth
The mottled cup moth is a small Australian moth. Its caterpillar is the part to know about, because it has yellow stinging spines that release painful toxins when touched. The caterpillar's bright bands warn that it is dangerous.1

Maziviro ayo
- The adult moth has a rust-coloured body and a white area around its antennae.1
- Its two pairs of legs have white bands on the front pair.1
- The forewings are shiny rust-coloured with silvery edges, and the hindwings are dull white.1
- The caterpillar is only about 2 cm long, grey with many dark spots and streaks.1
- Each side of the caterpillar has a clear yellow band lined with green, and it has spiny projections at both ends.1
Simba reuturu
Mvere diki dzinodimbukira muganda dzichibaya.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
The caterpillar's yellow needle-like spines contain a mixture of at least 151 toxins, which are proteins or protein-like substances. The spines cause pain and can induce severely inflamed swellings. The toxins are released when the spine tips break on contact.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.Contact with the spines causes painful, severely inflamed swellings.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
The caterpillar raises up to eight projections, each with about a hundred stinging spines, but only when it is disturbed or agitated. Its banded colours warn predators that it is dangerous.1
Kana ukabata mvere dzayo
- Kune mvere dzemakonye anobaya: dzibvise nekamatepi kanonamira, wozogeza ganda. Usakwesha.
- Kana yakuruma: geza parumwa wotonhodza. Wana rubatsiro rwechiremba kana munhu asinganzwi zvakanaka kana achibuda ropa zviri nyore.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana ukabata mvere dzayo: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
ipfupi kupfuura munwe wako mudiki
inononoka kupfuura hozhwa yemugadheniMottled cup moth yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
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Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
Researchers at the University of Queensland reported in 2021 that the caterpillar's venom contains at least 151 different toxins.1
The toxin cecropin causes the pain and also breaks down the cell membranes of bacteria and worms.1
A protein called DV33 can kill Haemonchus contortus, a roundworm that affects sheep.1
Some of the toxins have medicinal properties, such as the ability to kill harmful bacteria and parasitic worms.1
Some of the nervous-system proteins in the venom may have beneficial effects, such as in epilepsy.1
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Doratifera vulnerans (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Doratifera vulnerans (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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