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Asian hornet

Vespa velutina

只是会疼会疼，但不会对你造成严重伤害。

蜇伤吃：昆虫

The Asian hornet is a hornet from Southeast Asia that has spread to many other countries, including most of Europe, where it is an invasive species. It is a concern because it hunts honeybees and its stings can be serious for people.1

生活在

Native to Southeast Asia. Invasive in much of Europe, Japan, South Korea, parts of the United States, New Zealand and Algeria.1

亚洲

首页

Hornets build paper nests, which can hold several thousand individuals. Nests start in a low shrub and are often moved high into a tree after some months. Hornets hunt over beehives and apiaries, where people keeping bees can meet them, and people may be attacked when they disturb a nest.1

长度

2 cm到3 cm (0.8 in到1.2 in)1

最高速度

约 30 公里/小时（19 英里/小时）

飞行, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

It hunts a wide range of insects, including flies, dragonflies and grasshopper-type insects (Orthoptera), usually by chasing them in flight. Where it finds honeybee colonies, it tends to specialise in catching honeybees.1

Asian hornet的照片 — Asian hornet。照片：BlueGinkgo。 CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎样认出它

Queens are about 3 cm long, males about 2.4 cm and workers about 2 cm, so it is significantly smaller than the European hornet.1
Its legs (tarsi) are yellow, which gives it the name yellow-legged hornet.1
The thorax is velvety brown or black, with a brown abdomen.1
Each abdominal segment has a narrow yellow border at the back, except the fourth segment, which is orange.1
The head is black and the face is yellow.1

常被误认为： It looks like the European hornet (V. crabro), which is much larger. Its nest exit is usually on the side rather than at the bottom.1

毒液之力

蜇伤

毒液通过蜇刺出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

Multiple stings have caused anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction, in people who were hospitalised in France.1

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 很疼可能真的很疼，但几乎从不严重。

Although the species is not aggressive, people have been attacked after disturbing nests. A man in Galicia, Spain, was killed in 2017 after being stung over 20 times while pruning an apple tree. Several people have died in south west France, including in 2019 and 2020. Because of its larger size, its stings are more serious than those of western honeybees.1

它害怕时会做什么？

When it feels its nest is threatened, it charges in a group.1

如果它蜇人

刮掉蜜蜂的蜇针，冷敷患处。
如果这个人呼吸困难、脸或喉咙肿胀，或感觉要晕倒，这是过敏急症：拨打急救电话，如果他们有肾上腺素笔就使用。

一定先拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）。这里是一般急救指导，不是医疗建议。急救基础

注意安全

永远不要摸、抓或逗弄野生动物，即使是很小的，即使它看起来在睡觉或已经死了。
给它留出空间。如果遇到它，保持冷静，慢慢后退，让它走自己的路。
如果被它蜇了：保持冷静，保持不动，拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）或尽快去医院。记住它长什么样，拍张照片会有帮助。

它不是冲着你来的。它用毒液捕猎或保护自己，而且它更愿意躲起来。更多安全知识

在世界哪里？

非洲亚洲欧洲北美洲南美洲澳大利亚和大洋洲

它有多大？

它有多长？

差不多和一个回形针一样长13 秒就能飞过一整个足球场

Asian hornet和你比起来有多大？

只是在你的浏览器里算一算。什么都不会被保存或发送到任何地方。

它有多快？

一只家蝇 约 7 公里/小时 (4.4 mph)

Asian hornet 约 30 公里/小时 (19 mph)

一个全力冲刺的人 约 37 公里/小时 (23 mph)

值得了解

事实

In its native range, its main prey is the eastern honeybee, which defends the hive by balling hornets and raising the temperature inside the ball to a level that kills the hornet.1

A hornet hunting honeybees holds a territory of about 0.5 m² above a beehive and catches bees as they return to the hive.1

It is believed to have reached France in boxes of pottery from China in 2004.1

A colony often starts a nest in a low shrub, then abandons it after some months and builds a new one high in a tree, possibly to avoid parasites.1

Young queens leave the colony in late autumn and hibernate over winter.1