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Emerald cockroach wasp

Ampulex compressa
Hana madharaHana madhara kwa watu. Hakuna cha kuhofia.
Nyuki, nyigu na mavu KudungwaHula: Wadudu
Hatari kwa watu: HafifuKama kudungwa na nyuki au chini ya hapo. Kimsingi hana madhara kwa watu.

The emerald cockroach wasp is a solitary wasp with a shiny metallic blue-green body. It lives in tropical parts of Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands, and it has an unusual way of raising its young. It uses a cockroach as food and a home for its larvae.1

Anaishi
Tropical Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Pacific islands; also Hawaii and Brazil (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states)1
Asia, Afrika
Nyumbani
It is found in warm, tropical places and is more common in the warm seasons. Females dig burrows, where they bring cockroaches to lay their eggs.1
Urefu
2.2 cm (0.9 in)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 28 kwa saa (maili 17 kwa saa)
Anayeruka, makadirio
Hula nini?
Adult wasps feed on fluid (haemolymph) that oozes from the cockroach they have stung. Their larvae feed on the cockroach from the inside.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Emerald cockroach wasp
Emerald cockroach wasp. Picha: Sharadpunita. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Metallic blue-green body1
  • Thighs of the second and third pairs of legs are red1
  • Female is about 22 mm long1
  • Male is smaller and has no stinger1

Nguvu ya sumu

Kudungwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia mdungo.

Sumu yake hufanya nini?

The venom works on the cockroach's nervous system. The first sting causes short paralysis of the front legs, and the second sting, into the brain, stops the cockroach from escaping and makes it groom and move sluggishly. The effect lasts for about 72 hours.1

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: HafifuKama kudungwa na nyuki au chini ya hapo. Kimsingi hana madhara kwa watu.

Akidunga

  • Kwangua mwiba wa nyuki na upoze mahali hapo.
  • Mtu akipata shida ya kupumua, uso au koo likivimba, au akijisikia kuzimia, hiyo ni dharura ya mzio: piga namba ya dharura na umtumie kalamu yake ya adrenalini kama anayo.

Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza

Kaa salama

  • Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
  • Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
  • Akikudunga: tulia, usitikisike, piga namba yako ya dharura (112, 000, 911) au nenda hospitali haraka. Kumbuka alivyoonekana, picha husaidia.

Hakuwindi wewe. Hutumia sumu yake kukamata chakula au kujilinda, na hupendelea zaidi kujificha. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Emerald cockroach wasp urefu wa takriban 2.2 cm (0.9 in)Punje ya mchele takriban 7 mm (0.3 in)Sarafu ya euro 1 takriban 2.3 cm (0.9 in)
karibu urefu sawa na kibanio cha karatasiangeweza kuruka kuvuka uwanja mzima wa mpira kwa sekunde 14

Emerald cockroach wasp ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

The wasp stings a cockroach twice, aiming for specific nerve clusters in its body and head, rather than just injecting venom at random.1

2

After stinging, the wasp leads the cockroach to its burrow by pulling on one of its antennae, like a leash, even though the wasp is too small to carry it.1

3

The stung cockroach can still walk, swim and flip over, but it loses its normal urge to escape.1

4

The larva eats the cockroach's internal organs over about 8 days, and the adult wasp later emerges from the dead cockroach's body.1

5

A single mating is enough for a female to parasitise several dozen cockroaches.1

6

The wasp was brought to Hawaii in 1941 as a biological control, but this did not work well because of the wasp's territorial behaviour and the small scale on which it hunts.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Ampulex compressa
Kundi
Nyuki, nyigu na mavu
Familia
Ampulicidae2
Mpangilio
Hymenoptera
Mabara
Asia, Afrika
Watoto
The female lays one or two white eggs, about 2 mm long, between the legs of a stung cockroach. Each egg hatches after about 3 days.1
Hatari kwa watu
1 / 5: Hafifu3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Emerald cockroach wasp (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Ampulex compressa (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
  3. Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.

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