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Blue ant

Diamma bicolor

只是会疼会疼，但不会对你造成严重伤害。

蜇伤吃：植物

The blue ant is a metallic blue-green wasp, not an ant, that lives in south and southeast Australia. Its female is wingless and hunts mole crickets to feed its young. It is a useful pollinator of native Australian flowers.1

生活在

South and southeast Australia, including Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia1

澳大利亚和大洋洲

首页

Blue ants are ground-nesting wasps. They burrow under leaves to escape danger.1

长度

1.5 cm到2.5 cm (0.6 in到1 in)1

最高速度

约 0.5 公里/小时（0.31 英里/小时）

在陆地上, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

Adults feed on nectar and pollinate native Australian flowers, such as Lomatia silaifolia. Their larvae eat mole crickets that the female has paralysed for them.1

Blue ant的照片 — Blue ant。照片：Leuba Ridgway。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎样认出它

Metallic blue-green body with red legs1
Female is wingless and up to 25 mm (1 in) long1
Male is smaller, about 15 mm (5/8 in), and has wings1
Fast-moving1

毒液之力

蜇伤

毒液通过蜇刺出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

The female injects venom through her stinger to paralyse a mole cricket. The paralysed cricket is then left with an egg laid on it, giving the wasp larva a ready supply of food.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。

它害怕时会做什么？

When threatened, it burrows under leaves to escape, and it is not aggressive unless provoked.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

Blue ant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？

一只陆龟 约 0.3 公里/小时 (0.19 mph)

Blue ant 约 0.5 公里/小时 (0.31 mph)

一个在走路的人 约 5 公里/小时 (3.1 mph)

值得了解

事实

Despite its name and wingless body, the blue ant is a wasp, not an ant.1

Unlike most thynnid wasps, which attack beetle larvae, the blue ant hunts only mole crickets for its young.1

Adult blue ants pollinate several native Australian flowers while feeding on nectar.1

It is a solitary, parasitic wasp, meaning each female works alone and her larva feeds on another animal.1

谣言粉碎机

谣言： The blue ant is an ant.

真相： It is a species of flower wasp in the family Thynnidae.1

给毒液专家

学名: Diamma bicolor
类别: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和大黄蜂
家人: Thynnidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
大洲: 澳大利亚和大洋洲
宝宝: The female lays a single egg on a paralysed mole cricket, so the larva has food ready when it hatches.1
对人的危险: 2 / 5: 很疼3