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Asian giant hornet

Vespa mandarinia
Davart il num: In Japan it is called ōsuzumebachi, which means 'giant sparrow bee' or 'giant hornet'.1
Po mazzarPo ta mazzar senza tractament. Sch'el ta piztga, tschertga spert agid.
Avieuls, vespras e calabruns PiztgadasMangia: In pau da tut
Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

The Asian giant hornet is the world's largest hornet. It lives in forests and low mountains across much of East, South and Southeast Asia. Its sting carries a large amount of potent venom, so it is one of the hornets people should be most careful around.1

Viva en
East Asia, South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia and parts of the Russian Far East1
Asia
Pagina iniziala
It mostly lives in forests and low mountains, and avoids plains and high-altitude areas. It nests in holes dug by rodents, in spaces near rotten pine roots, or in tree cavities. In cities it is found mainly in green spaces, and in Japan it prefers rural areas with trees.1
Lunghezza
3,5 cm fin 5 cm (1,4 in fin 2 in)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 40 km/h (25 mph)
Sgular: sveltezza da sgular communitgada savens
Tge mangia el?
It feeds mainly on larger insects and colonies of other social insects. It also drinks tree sap and takes honey from honeybee colonies.1
Propi!Foto da Asian giant hornet
Asian giant hornet. Foto: Yasunori Koide. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • The head is a light orange shade, and the eyes are dark brown to black.1
  • The thorax is dark brown, and the two wings are grey.1
  • The abdomen has bands of dark brown or black alternating with yellow-orange, and the sixth segment is yellow.1
  • The body is about 4.5 cm long, and queens are larger than workers.1

Savens confundì cun: It is often confused with the European hornet, the eastern cicada killer and the southern yellowjacket. Thousands of photos sent in from the eastern United States, where this hornet has never been found, turned out to be these or other wasps, bees and insects.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its stinger is about 6 mm long and injects a large amount of potent venom. The venom can kill a person when several hornets sting at the same time, or in the rare case of an allergic reaction.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

It can kill a person when several hornets sting together, or through a rare allergic reaction to the venom.1

Sch'el piztga

  • Sgratta ora l'aguigl d'avieul e sfradenta il lieu.
  • Sche la persuna ha difficultads da respirar, unfladiras da la fatscha u da la gula, u sch'ella sa senta sco da svanir, è quai ina urgenza allergica: clama tes numer d'urgenza e duvra sia penna d'adrenalina, sch'ella ha ina.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

AfricaAsiaEuropaAmerica dal NordAmerica dal SidAustralia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Asian giant hornet circa 5 cm lung (2 in)In clip da palpiri circa 3 cm (1,2 in)In smartphone circa 15 cm (5,9 in)
pli curt che tes det pitschenpudess sgular sur in entir plaz da ballape en 9,5 secundas

Quant grond è Asian giant hornet cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

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Fatgs

1

It is the world's largest hornet.1

2

Its stinger is about 6 mm long, and it injects a large amount of potent venom.1

3

It was found briefly in the Pacific Northwest of North America from late 2019, and it was eradicated there by December 2024.1

4

The species has existed since the Miocene epoch, based on fossils found in the Shanwang Formation in China.1

5

Male drones are similar in size to females but have no stinger, which is typical of the order Hymenoptera.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: Any large wasp or hornet seen in the eastern United States is an Asian giant hornet.

Vardad: None of the thousands of samples submitted from the eastern United States, where this hornet has never occurred, was this species. They were mostly other wasps such as the European hornet.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Vespa mandarinia
Gruppa
Avieuls, vespras e calabruns
Famiglia
Vespidae2
Urden
Hymenoptera
Continents
Asia
Privel per umans
4 / 5: Fitg privlus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Asian giant hornet (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Vespa mandarinia (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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