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Asian honey bee

Apis cerana

名字的由來： Apis is Latin for 'bee'. 'Eastern', 'Asiatic' and 'Asian' all refer to where the bee is found.1

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

蜜蜂、胡蜂和虎頭蜂

螫吃：植物

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

The Asian honey bee is a honey-making bee that lives across South, Southeast and East Asia. Its colonies build nests with several combs inside cavities, and it is one of the bees people in the region meet most often. It is now also found in parts of Australia and the Pacific.1

分布在

South, Southeast and East Asia; introduced to New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands, Australia and the Solomon Islands1

亞洲

首頁

Colonies nest in tree cavities and in a wide range of other places, both natural and man-made. Its spread in Australia is a particular concern because its nests are found in many kinds of environment.1

長度

1 cm 到 1,1 cm (0,4 in 到 0,4 in)1

最高速度

大約 22 km/h（14 mph）

飛行, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It feeds mostly on pollen and nectar, or honey.1

Asian honey bee 的照片 — Asian honey bee。照片：avocat。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Adults are black with four yellow stripes across the abdomen.1
Workers have a pollen press on the hind leg and a stinger.1
Queens are larger than workers.1
Drones have larger eyes, no stinger and a blunter abdomen.1
Medium-sized, about 10 to 11 mm long.1

常被誤認為： It is very similar to the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, in size, shape and behaviour, and both build multi-comb nests in cavities. The two are separate species: their colonies differ in size, with Asian honey bee colonies holding about 6,000 to 7,000 workers compared with up to 50,000 or more for the western honey bee, and the two species do not produce offspring when they mate.1

毒液力量

螫

毒液從螫針出來。

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

牠害怕時會做什麼？

Its nests have a small entrance that helps guard against invasion by other nests. When a Japanese giant hornet invades, about 500 Japanese honey bees surround it and vibrate their flight muscles until it is heated to death.1

如果牠螫人

把蜜蜂的螫針刮掉，然後冷敷患處。
如果傷者呼吸困難、臉部或喉嚨腫脹，或覺得快要昏倒，這就是過敏急症：打緊急電話，如果傷者有腎上腺素自動注射筆，就使用它。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠螫了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

小到可以坐在你的指甲上可以在 17 秒內飛過一整座足球場

Asian honey bee 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一隻家蠅 大約 7 km/h (4,4 mph)

Asian honey bee 大約 22 km/h (14 mph)

一個正在衝刺的人 大約 37 km/h (23 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Japanese honey bees can heat an attacking giant hornet to 47 °C, which is hot enough to kill it, while keeping the temperature below their own lethal limit of 48 to 50 °C.1

Its nest temperature stays at about 33 to 35.5 °C, even when the outside air ranges from 12 to 36 °C.1

It stores about a third of its nectar in concentrated form to get through harsh winters.1

Its colonies usually hold 6,000 to 7,000 workers, far fewer than the western honey bee.1

破解迷思

迷思： The Asian and western honey bees are simply two races of the same species.

真相： They are two distinct species. Their colonies differ in size and they do not produce offspring when they mate.1

給毒液專家

學名: Apis cerana
類群: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和虎頭蜂
家人: Apidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
各大洲: 亞洲
寶寶: When a colony is full size, it rears new queens and splits, with about half the workers and the old queen leaving to form a new swarm in a new site.1
對人的危險: 2 / 5: 疼痛3