European beewolf
The European beewolf is a solitary wasp, not a bee. It lives across Europe, North Africa and parts of Africa. The female hunts honey bees to feed her young, which is why it is named after them.1

Nguvu ya sumu
Sumu hutoka kupitia mdungo.
Sumu yake hufanya nini?
The female stings its bee prey to paralyse them, so they stay alive but cannot move. The paralysed bees are stored in the nest as food for the larvae.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?
mfupi kuliko kidole chako kidogo
angeweza kuruka kuvuka uwanja mzima wa mpira kwa sekunde 15European beewolf ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?
Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.
Ana kasi gani?
Ukweli
Females protect their young from mould by applying a secretion to the bees, and the egg releases nitric oxide that kills growing fungi.1
Females also secrete a substance containing Streptomyces bacteria, which protect the larva's cocoon from fungal infection.1
The female hunts honey bees, and the species is apparently the only one in its genus that specialises in western honey bees.1
Nests can form large groups, with as many as 15,000 burrows in one aggregation.1
Niko Tinbergen's experiments showed that the wasp identifies its nest by sight.1
In Britain it was once considered one of the great rarities among stinging wasps, but its range has expanded northwards as summers have grown warmer.1
Kwa wataalamu wa sumu
- Jina la kisayansi
- Philanthus triangulum
- Kundi
- Nyuki, nyigu na mavu
- Familia
- Crabronidae2
- Mpangilio
- Hymenoptera
- Mabara
- Ulaya, Afrika
- Watoto
- The female lays an egg in an underground brood cell with several paralysed bees as food for the larva, and in cooler regions the larva overwinters.1
- Hali yake porini
- RDB2 (vulnerable) in Britain, though this may be revised because its range and numbers have increased1
- Hatari kwa watu
- 1 / 5: Hafifu3
Ukweli unatoka wapi
- European beewolf (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Philanthus triangulum (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
- Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.
Kila ukweli kwenye ukurasa huu una namba inayoonyesha chanzo chake. Kama tumekosea kitu, samahani, sisi ni wapenzi wa wanyama, si jarida la kisayansi. Tuambie kupitia [email protected] nasi tutarekebisha.
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