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Cow killer velvet ant

Dasymutilla occidentalis

Ci turam: The nickname cow killer comes from its extremely painful sting. It is called an ant because it looks like one, but it is a wasp.1

Dafay metti rekkDafay metti, waaye du la lor bu bon.

Yamb, guêpe ak frelon

Dafay jamDafay lekk: Yàpp

Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

The cow killer velvet ant is a wasp that looks like a black and red ant. It lives in the eastern United States, from Connecticut and Kansas in the north to Florida and Texas in the south. It is known for a sting so painful that it earned the nickname cow killer.1

Dafay dund ci

Eastern United States, from Connecticut to Kansas in the north and Florida to Texas in the south1

Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar

Guddaay

1,9 cm (0,7 in)1

Gaawaay bu gën a kawe

lu tollu ci 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

Ci suuf, xalaat

Lan lay lekk?

The young are parasites. A female lays an egg on a host larva, and the grub that hatches eats the host larva.1

Fotoy Cow killer velvet ant — Cow killer velvet ant. Foto: Judy Gallagher. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

Black overall, with bright red on the upper side of the head, thorax and abdomen.1
Females have no wings. Males have dark, translucent wings and no stinger.1
Adults reach about 1.9 cm long, the largest velvet ant in the eastern United States.1
Quick-moving, and often takes a defensive posture when threatened.1
Adults are mostly seen in the summer months.1

Ñu ngi koy faral di jaxasoo ak: It is often mistaken for an ant because of its appearance and its common name. It is actually a wasp, and only the males have wings.1

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay jam

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci ab dag buy jam.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

Its sting is among the most painful of any insect, ranked 3 out of 4 on the Schmidt sting pain index. The venom contains a peptide called Do6a, which triggers a pain response in fruit fly larvae in laboratory studies.1

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

The sting is extremely painful, ranked 3 out of 4 on the Schmidt sting pain index. This is the reason for the nickname cow killer.1

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

It has a thickened exoskeleton, runs fast and evasively, shows warning colours, makes a squeaking sound by rubbing its abdominal segments together, releases a chemical secretion and uses its venom.1

Su jamee

Xuufal dagu yamb bi ba mu génn, te sedal fa mu jam.
Su nit ki am jafe-jafe ci noyyi, kanamam walla putam funki, walla mu bëgg a xëm, allergie bu metti la (urgence): woo sa nimerob urgence te jëfandikoo stylo adrénaline bi mu am, su am.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
Su benn jamee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Fan ci àddina?

Afrig Asi Tugal Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar Amerig gu Bëj-saalum Ostarali ak Oseyani

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

gën a gàtt sa baaraam bu ndaw

Cow killer velvet ant ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

Ab mbonaat lu tollu ci 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Cow killer velvet ant lu tollu ci 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

Ab nit kuy dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

baax na xam

Xibaar

Both sexes squeak to warn predators. Velvet ants rub their abdominal segments together, while crickets rub their legs against their abdomen.1

North American velvet ant species form one of the most intricate mimicry rings in the natural world, split into eight separate rings of mimicry.1

Males find females by smelling pheromones and by following their squeaking sounds. They carry the female in their jaws to a shaded, safe spot to mate.1

Females are wingless, a feature shared by all females in the family Mutillidae.1

Females are believed to mate only once in their lifetime.1

Tasukatu léeb

Xalaat bu juum: It is an ant because it looks like one and has the name ant.

Dëgg: It is a parasitoid wasp. It is only commonly mistaken for an ant.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam: Dasymutilla occidentalis
Mbooloo: Yamb, guêpe ak frelon
Njaboot: Mutillidae2
Toftal: Hymenoptera
Kontinaa yi: Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar
Liir yi: A female lays a single egg onto a host larva, such as one of the eastern cicada killer or horse guard wasp, and the grub that hatches eats the host larva.1
Musiba ci nit: 2 / 5: Dafay metti3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

Dasymutilla occidentalis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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