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Tarantula hawk

Pepsis grossa
Ka lebitso: The wasps are named after their prey: they hunt tarantula spiders, which gives them the name tarantula hawk.1
E utlwisa bohloko feelaE a utlwisa bohloko, empa e ke ke ya o lematsa haholo.
Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

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

E phela
Southern United States (as far north as Kansas), Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean1
Amerika Leboya, Amerika Borwa
Lapeng
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
Bolelele
2,4 cm ho isa ho 5,1 cm (0,9 in ho isa ho 2 in)1
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 45 km/h (28 mph)
Ho fofa, kakanyo feela
E ja eng?
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
Ka nnete!Foto ya Tarantula hawk
Tarantula hawk. Foto: Niklas299. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • 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

Hangata e ferekanngwa le: 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

Matla a chefo

Ho hlaba

Chefo e tswa ka lemao le hlabang.

Chefo ya yona (eo e e kenyang ka ho loma kapa ho hlaba) e etsang?

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

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

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

E etsang ha e tshohile?

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

Haeba e hlaba

  • Kgwaratla lemao la notshi o le ntshe mme o pholise sebaka seo.
  • Haeba motho a hema ka thata, sefahleho kapa qoqotho di ruruha, kapa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshohanyetso ya aletjhi (allergy): letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso mme o sebedise pene ya hae ya adrenaline (adrenaline auto-injector) haeba a na le yona.

Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele

Dula o bolokehile

  • O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
  • E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
  • Haeba e nngwe e o hlaba: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.

Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

Tarantula hawk bolelele ba e ka bang 5,1 cm (2 in)Klipi ya pampiri e ka bang 3 cm (1,2 in)Fono e bohlale e ka bang 15 cm (5,9 in)
e kgutshwane ho feta monwana wa hao o monyenyanee ka fofa ho tshela lebala lohle la bolo ya maoto ka metsotswana e 8,4

Tarantula hawk e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?

Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.

E potlaka hakae?

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

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

Ho senya ditshomo

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

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

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Pepsis grossa
Sehlopha
Dinotshi, di-wasp le di-hornet
Lelapa
Pompilidae2
Tatelano
Hymenoptera
Dikontinente
Amerika Leboya, Amerika Borwa
Masea
The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
Kotsi ho batho
2 / 5: E bohloko3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Pepsis grossa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Pepsis grossa (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
  3. Venom Wiki: boemo ba kotsi, boholo bo tlwaelehileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kamoo re di balang ka teng: Kamoo re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.

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