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European yellow-tailed scorpion

Euscorpius flavicaudis

名字的由來： The common name refers to its yellow-brown tail.1

無害對人無害。不用擔心。

蠍子

螫吃：肉

對人的危險: 輕微跟蜜蜂螫差不多或更輕微。對人基本上無害。

This is a small black scorpion with yellow-brown legs and tail. It lives in warm parts of Southern Europe and Northwest Africa, and a colony has also settled in the United Kingdom. It is one of the few scorpions that can be found living in towns and cities.1

分布在

Southern Europe and Northwest Africa; an introduced colony in the United Kingdom (Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, and parts of east London)1

歐洲, 非洲

首頁

In warm temperate climates it lives in built-up areas. In the UK it occupies cracks and holes in walls where the mortar between the bricks has crumbled away.1

長度

3,5 cm 到 4,5 cm (1,4 in 到 1,8 in)1

最高速度

大約 1,1 km/h（0,68 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It is an ambush predator. It lies motionless at the entrance to its lair and moves quickly to catch prey that wanders past. Its main prey is woodlice, but it takes most small insects too.1

European yellow-tailed scorpion 的照片 — European yellow-tailed scorpion。照片：Drepanostoma。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Small and black, with yellow-brown legs and tail (metasoma)1
Adults measure about 35–45 mm long1
Relatively large, strong claws (pedipalps)1
A short, thin tail1

毒液力量

螫

毒液從螫針出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

It is a mildly venomous scorpion and rarely uses its stinger. Its sting is less painful for people than a bee sting.1

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 輕微跟蜜蜂螫差不多或更輕微。對人基本上無害。

It is mildly venomous and rarely uses its sting. Its sting is less painful than a bee sting.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

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？

比你的小指頭還短可以在 330 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

European yellow-tailed 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？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

European yellow-tailed scorpion 大約 1,1 km/h (0,68 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Thanks to a low metabolic rate, these scorpions can go for long periods without food, surviving on as few as four or five woodlice per year.1

The UK population is thought to have arrived in the early 19th century in a shipment of Italian masonry.1

In 2013 the British colony numbered 10,000 to 15,000 individuals, making it the northernmost population of scorpions outside the Americas.1

Cannibalism has been noted in colonies of this scorpion.1

給毒液專家

學名: Euscorpius flavicaudis
類群: 蠍子
家人: Euscorpiidae2
排序: Scorpiones
各大洲: 歐洲, 非洲
寶寶: It gives birth to live young, from a few to about 30 at a time, after a gestation period of 10–14 months; the newborns are white, soft and swollen and ride on their mother's back until their first moult, about 6 days later.1
對人的危險: 1 / 5: 輕微3