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Cuban blue scorpion

Heteroctenus junceus
名字的由來: Its common name 'blue scorpion' comes from the blue tone on its tail and stinger, and 'red scorpion' comes from its reddish dark body.1
只是會痛會痛,但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。
蠍子 螫
對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛,但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

The Cuban blue scorpion, also called the red scorpion, is a scorpion found only in a few parts of the Caribbean and Central America. It lives under rocks and fallen trees and among bromeliad plants. Hundreds of people are stung by it each year in Cuba, but the stings are not considered dangerous.1

分布在
Cuba and the Dominican Republic, as well as parts of Central America. It is one of 36 scorpion types found in these areas.1
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It lives in areas ranging from savanna forests to semi-desert. It is commonly found under rocks or fallen trees, and within the bromeliad plants that grow on trees.1
長度
5,5 cm 到 10 cm (2,2 in 到 3,9 in)1
最高速度
大約 1,7 km/h(1,1 mph)
在陸地上, 粗略估計
是真的!Cuban blue scorpion 的照片
Cuban blue scorpion。照片:Paintik。 CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

  • Adults are 55 to 100 mm (5.5 to 10 cm) long.1
  • The body is yellowish brown, pink or orange, and often reddish or dark.1
  • The tail is red or purple, with a blue tone on the tail and stinger.1
  • The eight legs are darker, in burgundy, purple or blackish shades, with a black triangle between them.1
  • It has a single stinger.1

毒液力量

螫

毒液從螫針出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用?

Its venom has an LD50 of 8.0 mg/kg, which is a measure of toxicity. The amount that would be needed to reach this level is far more than the stinger carries, so a single sting delivers much less than this dose.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。

Hundreds of people in Cuba are stung by this scorpion each year. The stings are not dangerous, because the amount of venom in the stinger is far below the LD50 level.1

如果牠螫人

  • 用冰敷袋冰敷螫傷處,讓傷者保持不動。趕快就醫,特別是小朋友:有些蠍子對小孩是致命的。

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

牠有多大?

牠有多長?

Cuban blue scorpion 大約 10 cm 長 (3,9 in)一根迴紋針 大約 3 cm (1,2 in)一支智慧型手機 大約 15 cm (5,9 in)
跟 3 塊玩具積木排成一排一樣長可以在 210 秒內跑完 100 公尺(最快的人類需要 9.6 秒)

Cuban blue scorpion 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?

值得知道

小知識

1

In Cuba, a mixture called escoazul is used in traditional medicine as an anti-inflammatory. It contains a diluted dose of this scorpion's venom.1

2

Only 15% of these scorpions reach adulthood, because lack of food is a major problem for them.1

3

Its life expectancy is three to five years.1

給毒液專家

學名
Heteroctenus junceus
類群
蠍子
家人
Buthidae2
排序
Scorpiones
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對人的危險
2 / 5: 疼痛3

知識的出處

  1. Heteroctenus junceus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Heteroctenus junceus (iNaturalist): 名稱和分類。
  3. Venom Wiki: 危險等級、一般大小和速度估計都是我們自己定的。看看我們是怎麼算出來的: 我們怎麼評估危險.

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