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Asian paper wasp

Polistes chinensis

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

螫吃：每樣都來一點

The Asian paper wasp is a slender wasp that builds its nests from chewed plant material and saliva. It lives mainly in East Asia, especially China and Japan, and has spread to New Zealand and Australia, where it competes with native insects for food.1

分布在

East Asia, mainly China and Japan; also Korea and Mongolia. Invasive in New Zealand and New South Wales, Australia.1

亞洲

首頁

It often builds nests on houses and other buildings, and also on branches, bushes and sometimes leaves. It prefers towns and cities, but nests are also found near forest clearings. Large populations form in warm, low-lying open areas such as shrublands, swamps and meadows.1

長度

1,3 cm 到 2,5 cm (0,5 in 到 1 in)1

最高速度

大約 25 km/h（16 mph）

飛行, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

Adults collect nectar and honeydew from flowers. They hunt invertebrates, especially caterpillars and moth and butterfly larvae, for protein, and may also eat marine invertebrates or fish carrion.1

Asian paper wasp 的照片 — Asian paper wasp。照片：Steve Kerr。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Slender body about 13 to 25 mm long.1
Body reddish brown or black, with yellow rings and reddish areas on the abdomen.1
Wings reddish or amber brown.1
Long legs that hang down during flight.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？

When a wasp of its own kind tries to steal from its nest, the nest-guarding female chases it off by flying in a double helix pattern with it.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？

大約跟一根迴紋針一樣長可以在 15 秒內飛過一整座足球場

Asian paper wasp 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 paper wasp 大約 25 km/h (16 mph)

一個正在衝刺的人 大約 37 km/h (23 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Queens destroy up to 70% of the eggs laid by workers in their colony.1

Workers police each other's eggs. In one study, 88.5% of queens' eggs survived to hatching, compared with 1.4% of workers' eggs.1

When food is short, a lone queen will eat some of her own larvae rather than leave the nest to hunt.1

The larval saliva that adult wasps feed on contains free amino acids at 50 times the level found in flower nectar.1

There are about 300 paper wasp species worldwide, and the genus Polistes is the largest in the family Vespidae.1

給毒液專家

學名: Polistes chinensis
類群: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和虎頭蜂
家人: Vespidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
各大洲: 亞洲
寶寶: An overwintered queen emerges in spring and lays eggs in nest cells. The first brood is entirely female, and males are produced from early summer onwards.1
對人的危險: 2 / 5: 疼痛3