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Blue ant

Diamma bicolor

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

螫吃：植物

The blue ant is a metallic blue-green wasp, not an ant, that lives in south and southeast Australia. Its female is wingless and hunts mole crickets to feed its young. It is a useful pollinator of native Australian flowers.1

分布在

South and southeast Australia, including Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia1

澳洲與大洋洲

首頁

Blue ants are ground-nesting wasps. They burrow under leaves to escape danger.1

長度

1,5 cm 到 2,5 cm (0,6 in 到 1 in)1

最高速度

大約 0,5 km/h（0,31 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

Adults feed on nectar and pollinate native Australian flowers, such as Lomatia silaifolia. Their larvae eat mole crickets that the female has paralysed for them.1

Blue ant 的照片 — Blue ant。照片：Leuba Ridgway。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Metallic blue-green body with red legs1
Female is wingless and up to 25 mm (1 in) long1
Male is smaller, about 15 mm (5/8 in), and has wings1
Fast-moving1

毒液力量

螫

毒液從螫針出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

The female injects venom through her stinger to paralyse a mole cricket. The paralysed cricket is then left with an egg laid on it, giving the wasp larva a ready supply of food.1

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 threatened, it burrows under leaves to escape, and it is not aggressive unless provoked.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

Blue ant 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？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Blue ant 大約 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Despite its name and wingless body, the blue ant is a wasp, not an ant.1

Unlike most thynnid wasps, which attack beetle larvae, the blue ant hunts only mole crickets for its young.1

Adult blue ants pollinate several native Australian flowers while feeding on nectar.1

It is a solitary, parasitic wasp, meaning each female works alone and her larva feeds on another animal.1

破解迷思

迷思： The blue ant is an ant.

真相： It is a species of flower wasp in the family Thynnidae.1

給毒液專家

學名: Diamma bicolor
類群: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和虎頭蜂
家人: Thynnidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
各大洲: 澳洲與大洋洲
寶寶: The female lays a single egg on a paralysed mole cricket, so the larva has food ready when it hatches.1
對人的危險: 2 / 5: 疼痛3