Thistledown velvet ant
InobayaThe thistledown velvet ant is a mid-sized member of the Dasymutilla genus, a group known as velvet ants. Its females have no wings and live in hot deserts in the south-western United States and northern Mexico. Females can deliver a very painful sting, so it is best to leave them alone.1

Maziviro ayo
- Only the females are wingless.1
- It is mid-sized for a velvet ant, larger than some of the smallest species but smaller than some of the largest.1
- Females are camouflaged. They look like the fruit of the Creosotebush rather than having the bright warning colours seen in many other velvet ants.1
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: Unlike the orange Dasymutilla species found in the same habitat, this species does not use bright orange or warning colours. Its camouflage helps it blend into the desert plants around it.1
Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nerumbori.
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.Females can deliver a very painful sting when threatened. Its sting is more powerful than those of most smaller velvet ants, but weaker than those of most larger ones.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
Females use their sting to defend themselves when threatened.1
Kana ikabaya
- Bvisa rumbori rwenyuchi nekurikwenya, wotonhodza panzvimbo iyoyo.
- Kana munhu achinetseka kufema, chiso kana huro zvichizvimba, kana achinzwa kunge ofenda, ndiyo njodzi yeallergy: fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi uye shandisa pen yake yeadrenaline kana anayo.
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 ikakubaya: 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 mudikiThistledown velvet ant yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
Its females are camouflaged to look like Creosotebush fruit, instead of using the bright warning colours common to other velvet ants.1
Its colouring seems to be mainly an adaptation to hot desert conditions, not a defence against predators.1
Its internal and external body temperatures are lower than those of orange Dasymutilla species living in the same habitat.1
Its sting is stronger than those of most smaller velvet ants, but weaker than those of most larger ones.1
Like other velvet ants, only the wingless females have the sting used for defence.1
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Dasymutilla gloriosa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Dasymutilla gloriosa (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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