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Red widow

Latrodectus bishopi
Nezvezita: The name bishopi honours Marshall B. Bishop, who collected the specimens used to describe the spider.1
InongorwadzaInorwadza, asi haizokukuvadza zvakanyanya.
Madandemutande InorumaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.

The red widow is a venomous spider that lives only in Florida, in the dry, sandy scrub where sand pine trees grow. It is a close relative of the black widow, but it rarely comes into contact with people, so it is not often met. Its bright red colours make it easy to recognise.1

Inogara mu
Central and southern Florida, USA1
Amerika yeKuchamhembe
Kumba
It lives mainly in sand-pine scrub, which is inland areas of dry sand dunes covered in sand pine trees. It builds most of its webs in palmetto bushes, at least 30 cm above the ground. It seldom comes into contact with humans.1
Kureba
4 cm (1,6 in)3
saizi yakajairika yemhuka yakura
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 0,98 km/h (0,61 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It is a predator of the insect Hemisphaerota cyanea. It catches prey in its tangled webs, then retreats to a funnel-shaped hideaway below.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waRed widow
Red widow. Mufananidzo: Stevenklioze00. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • The cephalothorax (the front part of the body) is red-orange.1
  • The abdomen is black, with yellow rings outlining rows of red spots.1
  • The legs are vermilion red.1
  • The underside does not have the familiar hourglass marking. It usually has one or two small red marks instead.1
  • Females are almost double the size of males.1

Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: It is closely related to the black widow (Latrodectus mactans). The two can be told apart by features of the male and female genitalia, which are examined under magnification. The red widow's male embolus has one fewer loop, and the female's connecting ducts to the spermatheca also have one fewer loop.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

The red widow is venomous like other members of the genus Latrodectus. In a documented bite, the main effect was a mildly painful throbbing sensation that lasted several hours. The median lethal dose (LD50) of its venom in mice is 2.20 mg/kg, and each spider contains about 0.157 mg of venom.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.

No bites from this spider are recorded in the medical literature. It seldom comes into contact with humans, unlike the black and brown widows, which live close to people. One documented bite caused a mildly painful throbbing that lasted several hours.1

Kana ikaruma

  • Geza parumwa woisa pakiti yechando kuderedza marwadzo. Wana rubatsiro rwechiremba kana marwadzo akanyanya, achipararira kana munhu asinganzwi zvakanaka.

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 imwe ikakuruma: 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?

Red widow kunenge 4 cm kureba (1,6 in)Chibatanidzo chemapepa kunenge 3 cm (1,2 in)Runhare rwemazuva ano kunenge 15 cm (5,9 in)
inenge kureba sechibatanidzo chemapepa

Red widow yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

A bite was filmed and documented in 2023 by biologist Spencer Hoffman, one of the few recorded bites from this species.1

2

Females are almost double the size of males.1

3

Its predators are thought to include sphecid wasps and the Florida scrub jay.1

4

It lives in sand-pine scrub, a habitat found only in Florida and coastal Alabama.1

Kuputsa ngano

Ngano: All widow spiders have the hourglass marking on the underside.

Chokwadi: The red widow does not have the familiar hourglass marking. It usually has one or two small red marks instead.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Latrodectus bishopi
Boka
Madandemutande
Mhuri
Theridiidae2
Odha
Araneae
Makondinendi
Amerika yeKuchamhembe
Vacheche
The spider stores its egg sacs in its funnel-shaped retreat.1
Iri kurarama sei musango
Threatened (in the United States)1
Ngozi kuvanhu
2 / 5: Inorwadza3

Kwakabva chokwadi

  1. Latrodectus bishopi (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Latrodectus bishopi (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
  3. Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.

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