骷髏天蛾
骷髏天蛾嘅成蟲擘開啲翼可以有成 13 cm 咁長。佢哋喺外形上最大嘅特徵係背脊上面嘅花紋-佢哋背脊上嘅花紋畀人覺得望落好似骷髏頭噉嘅樣,所以佢哋响粵文入面就有咗個名叫「骷髏」天蛾,而英文名入面嘅 death's head 都係講緊佢哋背脊花紋似骷髏頭[2]。
習性
編輯骷髏天蛾喺好多行為上同第啲飛蛾大同小異,不過都有啲獨特之處。
骷髏天蛾出嗮名鍾意食蜜糖[註 1]:骷髏天蛾識得模仿蜜蜂陣除,令到蜜蜂以為佢哋係同伴(蜜蜂唔會郁手攻擊骷髏天蛾);於是骷髏天蛾就會恃住呢樣嘢走入去蜜蜂竇度,再靠住佢哋頭度一條又尖又硬嘅構造,拮穿蜜蜂竇嘅牆並且偷蜜糖食。因為佢哋有噉嘅習性,所以骷髏天蛾喺英文入面又有個花名叫 bee robber-即係話佢哋會「打劫」蜜蜂噉解。
註釋
編輯睇埋
編輯攷
編輯- ↑ Pittaway, A. R. & Kitching, I. J. (2018). "Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) -- Greater death's head hawkmoth". Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ↑ Leong, Tzi Ming (2011-09-09). "The brown form final instar caterpillar of the hawkmoth, Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) in Singapore (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), with an account of parasitism by the tachinid fly, Drino (Zygobothria) atropivora (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)" (PDF). Nature in Singapore. 4: 251-258.