Hvem styrer egentlig Amazonas – jaguaren eller myrerne?
De største dyr får ofte mest opmærksomhed. Men det er edderkopper, biller, tusindben og myrer, der holder regnskovens økosystem i gang. Faktisk er omkring 80 % af alle kendte dyrearter på Jorden leddyr.
I denne episode dykker vi ned i Amazonas' fascinerende verden af leddyr – fra gigantiske rovedderkopper og giftige skolopendre til møgbiller og hærmyrer!
I episoden kan du høre om:
- Verdens største fugleedderkop og den berygtede bananedderkop
- Sociale edderkopper, der lever i kolonier med tusindvis af individer
- Kæmpeskolopendre, der kan jage flagermus
- Amazonas møgbiller
- Kuglemyrer med verdens mest smertefulde stik
- Hvordan Hærmyrer og fugle samarbejder
Billeder af
Bertrand Krafft, Laurie J. Cookson, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Fritz Geller-Grimm, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Akio Tanikawa, CC BY-SA 2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Katka Nemčoková, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Erin Mills, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
CostaPPPR, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
April Nobile / © AntWeb.org
Videnskabelige kilder
Martins, Jonas & Almeida, Marllus Rafael & Procópio, Rudi & Lira, André. (2024). Cannibalism in Tityus metuendus Pocock, 1897 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from the Brazilian Amazon. REVISTA CHILENA DE ENTOMOLOGÍA. 50. 57-61. 10.35249/rche.50.1.24.08.
Andresen, E. (2002). Dung beetles in a Central Amazonian rainforest and their ecological role as secondary seed dispersers. Ecological Entomology, 27(3), 257-270. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00408.x
Delabie, J. H. C., Dejean, A., Leponce, M., Longino, J. T., Orivel, J., Touchard, A., & Compin, A. (2025). Ant Diversity and Stratification in an Amazonian Rainforest. Ecology and evolution, 15(12), e72793. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72793
Andre kilder
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/goliath-tarantula
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/goliath-birdeater
https://www.iflscience.com/goliath-birdeater-tarantula-the-worlds-biggest-spider-is-deadly-and-delicious-71459
https://www.livescience.com/41591-brazilian-wandering-spiders.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/spider-venom-that-causes-penile-necrosis-could-work-as-an-alternative-to-viagra
https://www.wandering-spiders.net/ancylometes/natural-history/#c2059
https://www.wandering-spiders.net/ancylometes/introduction/
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/guides/spiders-of-the-amazon
https://www.iflscience.com/a-giant-centipede-that-lurks-in-the-amazon-is-a-bat-hunting-specialist-69845
https://www.si.edu/collections/snapshot/titan-beetle
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-biggest-beetle-in-the-world.html
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/beetles/rhinoceros-beetle
https://www.thebogotapost.com/hercules-beetle-meet-the-hug-bug-in-the-colombian-amazon/37970/
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-biggest-beetle-in-the-world.html
https://antwiki.org/wiki/Dinoponera
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Eciton
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Gigantiops_destructor
https://antwiki.org/wiki/Cephalotes
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Phragmosis
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anelosimus_eximius/
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/bullet-ant-painful-sting
https://antwiki.org/wiki/Cephalotes
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/bugnos
https://www.livescience.com/25513-rainforest-arthropod-diversity.html
https://pattedyrforening.dk/pattedyr/
https://fodboldbaner.wil.dk/