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Himalayan giant honey bee

Apis laboriosa

需要看醫生很少致命，但被螫了需要看醫生。

螫

The Himalayan giant honey bee is the largest honey bee in the world. It lives in the mountains of the Himalayas, where it builds huge nests on steep cliff faces. It is special because it is highly adapted to life at high altitude.1

分布在

Mountains of Bhutan, Yunnan (China), India, Nepal, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, largely in the Himalayas1

亞洲

首頁

It mostly nests at 2,500 to 3,000 metres, building very large nests under overhangs on the southwestern faces of vertical cliffs. Its bees forage at heights of up to 4,100 metres.1

長度

3 cm (1,2 in)1

最高速度

大約 33 km/h（21 mph）

飛行, 粗略估計

Himalayan giant honey bee 的照片 — Himalayan giant honey bee。照片：L. Shyamal。 CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

It is the largest honey bee in the world, with single adults measuring up to 3.0 cm long.1
It has a darker abdomen (rear body section) than the giant honey bee, Apis dorsata.1
It has longer hair on the thorax (middle body section) than Apis dorsata.1
It builds very large nests on the underside of cliff overhangs at high altitude.1

常被誤認為： It is often confused with the giant honey bee, Apis dorsata, which it is very similar to in shape. The Himalayan giant honey bee has a darker abdomen, longer thoracic hair, and different nest-keeping and swarming behaviour.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。

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 11 秒內飛過一整座足球場

Himalayan 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)

Himalayan giant honey bee 大約 33 km/h (21 mph)

一個正在衝刺的人 大約 37 km/h (23 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Red honey has an intoxicating effect, which is linked to grayanotoxin in nectar from white rhododendrons.1

The Gurung people of Nepal are known for using this mad honey for both medicinal and hallucinogenic purposes.1

A nest of this bee can hold as much as 60 kg of honey.1

Red honey made by this bee is valuable, and wholesale prices are about five times higher than regular honey from the western honey bee or the Asian honey bee.1

The yellow-rumped honeyguide, a small sparrow-like bird, feeds on beeswax and is often seen near colonies of this bee.1