Mammoth wasp
The mammoth wasp is the largest wasp found in Europe. It looks a bit like a very big bumble bee, and it lives in warm, dry places around the Mediterranean and across parts of Asia. Its young grow up inside beetle grubs.1

Tsela ya go e lemoga
- Glossy black body covered in fine, downy hair1
- Two yellow bands across the abdomen, sometimes split into four yellow spots1
- Females have a yellow head; males have a black head1
- Females can reach 4.5 cm, and males are smaller than females1
- Looks like a very large, elongated bumble bee1
Gantsi e tlhakanngwa le: It is often confused with Scolia hirta. That wasp is smaller and has a black head.1
Maatla a botlhole
Botlhole bo tswa ka lemao le le tlhabang.
Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?
The female stings the beetle grub to paralyse it, so it cannot move. Its venom is used on prey, not as a defence for people. The sting paralyses the beetle grub so the wasp's larva can feed on it.1
E kotsi go le kae go batho?
Kotsi go batho: Kotsi e nnyeJaaka go tlhabiwa ke notshe kgotsa go le kwa tlase. Ga e na kotsi go batho.
Fa e tlhaba
- Ntsha lemao la notshe ka go le kgwaratla, mme o tsidifatse lefelo leo.
- Fa motho a hema ka bothata, sefatlhego kgotsa mometso o ruruga, kgotsa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshoganyetso ya aletshi: leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso mme o dirise pene ya gagwe ya adrenaline fa a na le yone.
Ka gale leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Se ke kaelo e e akaretsang ya thuso ya ntlha, ga se kgakololo ya bongaka. Motheo wa thuso ya ntlha
Nna o babalesegile
- O se ka wa ama, wa tshwara kgotsa wa tshwenya phologolo ya naga, le fa e le e nnye, le fa e lebega e robetse kgotsa e sule.
- E fe sebaka. Fa o kopana le yone, ritibala, boela morago ka bonya mme o e tlogele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yone.
- Fa e nngwe e go tlhaba: ritibala, o se ka wa tshikinyega, leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso (112, 000, 911) kgotsa o ye bookelong ka bonako. Gopola gore e ne e lebega jang, setshwantsho se a thusa.
Ga e go batle. E dirisa botlhole jwa yone go tshwara dijo kgotsa go itshireletsa, mme e rata go iphitlha go feta. Go le gontsi ka go nna o babalesegile
Kae mo lefatsheng?
E kgolo go le kae?
E telele go le kae?
khutshwane go feta monwana wa gago o monnye
e ka fofa go kgabaganya lebala lotlhe la kgwele ya dinao ka metsotswana e le 8,4Mammoth wasp e kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sefetleng sa gago (browser). Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E bonako go le kae?
Dintlha
It is the largest wasp found in Europe.1
It is a parasitoid: its young develop by feeding on another insect, a beetle grub, which dies in the process.1
Some researchers suggest it was the model for a gold Minoan pendant called the Malia Pendant.1
The European rhinoceros beetle is its main host, but it also lays eggs on the grubs of several other beetles, including the European stag beetle.1
Ya baitseanape ba botlhole
- Leina la saense
- Megascolia maculata
- Setlhopha
- Dinotshe, diwasepe le dihonete
- Lelapa
- Scoliidae2
- Lekoko
- Hymenoptera
- Dikontinente
- Yuropa, Asia
- Masea
- The female lays a single egg on a paralysed beetle grub. The wasp larva eats the grub, except its skin, then builds a cocoon and emerges as an adult the following spring.1
- Kotsi go batho
- 1 / 5: Kotsi e nnye3
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Regiscolia maculata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Megascolia maculata (iNaturalist): maina le thulaganyo ya mefuta.
- Venom Wiki: seelo sa kotsi, bogolo jo bo tlwaelegileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kafa re di balang ka teng: Kafa re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.
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Go tlhaba
