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Tarantula hawk

Pepsis grossa

Malunga negama: The wasps are named after their prey: they hunt tarantula spiders, which gives them the name tarantula hawk.1

Kubuhlungu njeKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.

Iinyosi, oonomeva nee-hornet

UkuhlabaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Sihlala

Southern United States (as far north as Kansas), Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean1

uMntla Melika, uMzantsi Melika

Ekhaya

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

Ubude

2,4 cm ukuya ku-5,1 cm (0,9 in ukuya ku-2 in)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-45 km/h (28 mph)

Ukubhabha, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

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

Ifoto ka-Tarantula hawk — Tarantula hawk. Ifoto: Niklas299. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

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

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: 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

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuhlaba

Ityhefu iphuma ngenaliti yokuhlaba.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

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

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

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

Ukuba siyahlaba

Krwela inaliti yenyosi uyikhuphe uze upholise indawo.
Ukuba umntu uphefumla kanzima, ubuso okanye umqala wakhe uyadumba, okanye uziva ngathi uza kufa isiqaqa, yimeko kaxakeka ye-aleji: tsalela inombolo kaxakeka kwaye usebenzise ipeni yakhe ye-adrenaline ukuba unayo.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuhlaba: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

mfutshane kunomnwe wakho omncincisingabhabha siwele ibala lebhola ekhatywayo lonke ngemizuzwana eyi-8,4

U-Tarantula hawk mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Umntu obaleka ngamandla malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

Tarantula hawk malunga ne-45 km/h (28 mph)

Imoto edolophini malunga ne-50 km/h (31 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

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

Roadrunners sometimes steal the tarantula from a wasp and leave the wasp unharmed. Others beat the wasp against the ground before eating it.1

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

Wasps of the genus Pepsis are important pollinators of milkweeds, which are poisonous to grazing livestock.1

Umqhekezi weentsomi

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

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

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Pepsis grossa
Iqela: Iinyosi, oonomeva nee-hornet
Usapho: Pompilidae2
Ucwangco: Hymenoptera
Amazwekazi: uMntla Melika, uMzantsi Melika
Iintsana: The female lays a single egg on a paralysed spider and seals it in a chamber, and the larva eats the spider.1
Ingozi ebantwini: 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

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