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Red-tailed bumblebee

Bombus lapidarius

無害對人無害。不用擔心。

螫吃：植物

The red-tailed bumblebee is a black bee with red markings at the back of its body. It lives across much of Central Europe, including Britain and Ireland. It is an important pollinator of flowers and crops, and like other bumblebees it can sting.1

分布在

Europe, including Britain and Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and parts of Greece. Common across Central Europe.1

歐洲

首頁

It nests in many kinds of habitat but usually prefers open ground to heavily forested areas. In Ireland it is found in coastal dunes and unimproved grassland, and is almost absent from farmland.1

長度

1,8 cm (0,7 in)3

一般成體大小

最高速度

大約 26 km/h（16 mph）

飛行, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It eats pollen and nectar from flowers. It tends to visit certain flower species and ignores others that would be just as rewarding.1

Red-tailed bumblebee 的照片 — Red-tailed bumblebee。照片：Odd Wellies。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Black body with red markings around the abdomen.1
Males have red and black colouring, a yellow band around the abdomen and yellow markings on the face.1
Workers and the queen look similar, but the queen is much larger than the workers.1

常被誤認為： Rarer bumblebees such as Bombus ruderarius have a similar appearance.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: 輕微跟蜜蜂螫差不多或更輕微。對人基本上無害。

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？

比你的小指頭還短可以在 15 秒內飛過一整座足球場

Red-tailed bumblebee 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)

Red-tailed bumblebee 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

The bees warm their nest by producing heat with their flight muscles, which they use to incubate the brood.1

Cuckoo bumblebees can invade its nests by copying its chemical scent or by producing a substance that repels the workers.1

Males mark spots with scent to attract females, and these scents are often copied by cuckoo bumblebees.1

Some individuals fly as far as 1,750 metres from the nest to find food, although most forage much closer.1

Males travel much farther than workers, which may help keep the population genetically varied.1

It forages and pollinates at higher temperatures than many other bumblebee species.1

給毒液專家

學名: Bombus lapidarius
類群: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和虎頭蜂
家人: Apidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
各大洲: 歐洲
寶寶: The queen lays eggs in the nest, and workers sometimes eat them. A nest usually holds a few hundred bees at most, with about 100 to 200 workers on average.1
牠在野外的狀況: Near Threatened in Ireland1
對人的危險: 1 / 5: 輕微3