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Giant honey bee

Apis dorsata

需要看醫生很少致命，但被螫了需要看醫生。

螫吃：植物

The giant honey bee is a large honey bee that lives in South and Southeast Asia. It builds its nests in open, high places, such as tree branches, cliff overhangs and buildings. It is known for fierce defence when its nest is disturbed.1

分布在

South and Southeast Asia, from the Indian subcontinent to China, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka1

亞洲

首頁

Mostly lives in tall trees in dense forests, and also builds nests on urban buildings. Nests are built in the open and well off the ground, on tree limbs, under cliff overhangs and under buildings. These bees rarely build on old or weak buildings.1

長度

1,7 cm 到 2 cm (0,7 in 到 0,8 in)1

最高速度

大約 26 km/h（16 mph）

飛行, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

Foragers travel to flowers to collect food, including nectar and pollen, which the colony uses to make honey. Foragers can travel farther than some related bees, though most stay within 400 metres of the nest.1

Giant honey bee 的照片 — Giant honey bee。照片：Peterwchen。 CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

Typically 17 to 20 mm long1
Builds a single vertical comb of wax, hanging from above1
The comb is covered by a dense mass of bees in several layers1
Nests can reach up to 1 metre across and are often grouped, with up to 200 colonies in one tree1
Aggressive when its nest is disturbed1

常被誤認為： The Himalayan giant honey bee (A. laboriosa) is very similar in shape. It has a darker abdomen and longer thoracic hair, and is now treated as a separate species from the giant honey bee.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: 嚴重被螫了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

This bee is known for aggressive defensive behaviour and vicious attacks when disturbed. Workers also attack bees from other colonies, so it is wise to keep well away from nests.1

牠害怕時會做什麼？

When disturbed, colonies defend their nest aggressively, and they attack intruders from other colonies.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

Giant 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)

Giant honey bee 大約 26 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

Unlike most honey bees, this species forages at night, and it is the only bee of its genus known to do so.1

The queen mates with many drones, and the Himalayan subspecies has the highest levels of polyandry of any social insect.1

Each colony can have up to 100,000 bees, and colonies are only a few centimetres apart in large groups.1

Colonies migrate between nesting sites with the seasons, usually staying about 3 to 4 months at each site.1

Bees use a waggle dance to show other bees the distance, direction and value of a food source.1

Indigenous peoples have traditionally harvested the honey and beeswax of this bee, a practice known as honey hunting.1

給毒液專家

學名: Apis dorsata
類群: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和虎頭蜂
家人: Apidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
各大洲: 亞洲
寶寶: New colonies form when a queen flies away from the nest slowly, with a swarm of workers following her, usually in October or November.1
對人的危險: 3 / 5: 嚴重3