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Southern giant hornet

Vespa soror

需要看醫生很少致命，但被螫了需要看醫生。

螫吃：肉

The southern giant hornet is one of the largest hornets in the world. It lives in parts of South and East Asia, where it hunts insects and small animals. It is known for raiding honeybee colonies.1

分布在

India, northern Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, and parts of southern China including Hong Kong, Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan Island1

亞洲

首頁

Its nests are usually underground, in forested areas.1

長度

2,6 cm 到 4,6 cm (1 in 到 1,8 in)1

最高速度

大約 39 km/h（24 mph）

飛行, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It is an aggressive predator. It attacks the nests of honeybees, wasps and smaller hornet species, and also hunts mantids, dragonflies, butterflies, grasshoppers and small animals such as geckos.1

Southern giant hornet 的照片 — Southern giant hornet。照片：Rushen。 CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

Workers have a body length of 26 to 35 mm.1
Queens are larger, with a body length of 39 to 46 mm.1
It is one of the largest hornets, but smaller than the Asian giant hornet.1
Hornets often attack bee colonies in groups, landing at and chewing on the hive entrance.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？

比你的小指頭還短可以在 9,7 秒內飛過一整座足球場

Southern giant hornet 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？

一個正在衝刺的人 大約 37 km/h (23 mph)

Southern giant hornet 大約 39 km/h (24 mph)

市區裡的汽車 大約 50 km/h (31 mph)

值得知道

小知識

When hornets raid a honeybee colony, they kill the adult guards and carry away the bodies and the young, which can destroy the whole colony.1

Some honeybees in Vietnam and other countries in Asia smear animal droppings around their hive entrances. Hornets spent less than half the time at entrances once they had spotted these, and 94% less time chewing their way in.1

Hornets rub their abdomens on the hive and nearby plants while they attack. This may be a signal that calls other hornets to join in.1

A single queen was found at Vancouver Harbor, Canada, in May 2019. It is believed to have arrived with shipping and not to be part of a wider population in North America.1

In 2022 and 2023, researchers found four workers in northern Spain. This made Spain the second place outside its range where the hornet has been found.1