Asian giant hornet
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

Uko wayimenya
- 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
Ikunze kwitiranywa na: 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
Imbaraga z'ubumara
Ubumara busohokera mu rubori.
Ubumara bwayo bukora iki?
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
Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?
Akaga ku bantu: Iteje akaga cyaneIshobora kwica umuntu utavuwe.It can kill a person when several hornets sting together, or through a rare allergic reaction to the venom.1
Niba itera urubori
- Kuramo urubori rw'uruyuki uruharura, kandi ukonjeshe aho rwateye.
- Niba umuntu ahumeka bimugoye, akabyimba mu maso cyangwa mu muhogo, cyangwa akumva agiye guta ubwenge, ni ikibazo cyihutirwa cya aleriji: hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi kandi ukoreshe urushinge rwe rwa adrenaline (adrenaline pen) niba arufite.
Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze
Irinde akaga
- Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
- Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
- Niba imwe igutereye urubori: tuza, ntunyeganyege, hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911) cyangwa ujye ku bitaro vuba. Ibuka uko yasaga, ifoto irafasha.
Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Ikoresha ubumara bwayo kugira ngo ifate ibyo kurya cyangwa yirinde, kandi ikunda cyane kwihisha. Ibindi ku kwirinda
Ingana gute?
Ireshya ite?
ngufi kurusha agahera kawe
yaguruka ikambuka ikibuga cyose cy'umupira w'amaguru mu masegonda 9,5Asian giant hornet ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?
Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.
Yihuta gute?
Ibintu by'ukuri
It is the world's largest hornet.1
Its stinger is about 6 mm long, and it injects a large amount of potent venom.1
It was found briefly in the Pacific Northwest of North America from late 2019, and it was eradicated there by December 2024.1
The species has existed since the Miocene epoch, based on fossils found in the Shanwang Formation in China.1
Male drones are similar in size to females but have no stinger, which is typical of the order Hymenoptera.1
Usenya ibinyoma
Ikinyoma: Any large wasp or hornet seen in the eastern United States is an Asian giant hornet.
Ukuri: 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
Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka
- Asian giant hornet (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Vespa mandarinia (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
- Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.
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