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Large velvet ant

Mutilla europaea

名字的由来： The name "velvet ant" comes from the dense, velvet-like bristles (setae) that cover its body.1

只是会疼会疼，但不会对你造成严重伤害。

蜜蜂、胡蜂和大黄蜂

蜇伤吃：肉

对人的危险: 很疼可能真的很疼，但几乎从不严重。

The large velvet ant is not really an ant. It is a wasp, and the females have no wings and look like fuzzy ants. It lives in parts of Europe, Asia and North Africa, in heaths, moors, grasslands and woodland. Its sting is painful, but it is not aggressive.1

生活在

Most of Europe, east to China, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. In Great Britain, mainly the south and east, and recently as far north as Aberdeenshire.1

欧洲, 亚洲

首页

It lives in heaths, moors, chalk grassland and woodland. In England it is most closely linked to lowland heaths, where females are often seen running across sandy paths.1

长度

1.4 cm (0.6 in)3

典型成年个体大小

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？

The larvae are parasitoids that eat the pupae of bumblebees, and occasionally honeybees, inside the host nest. Adults feed on nectar, and on the honey stores of host bees.1

Large velvet ant的照片 — Large velvet ant。照片：Michael Knapp。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎样认出它

Males are dark red on the tip of the mandibles (jaws) and on the thorax.1
The first and second segments of the abdomen have bands of long silver bristles.1
The tip of the abdomen and much of the body are covered in long black bristles.1
Females have a red mesonotum (the upper middle part of the thorax) and silver-spotted flanks along the abdomen.1
Some males are completely black, and colour varies between individuals.1

毒液之力

蜇伤

毒液通过蜇刺出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

The sting is painful. Its venom is much less toxic than the venom of a honeybee.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。

The wasp is not aggressive and only stings people when handled. Its sting is painful but less toxic than a honeybee's.1

它害怕时会做什么？

When threatened, it stridulates by rubbing a raised structure called the plectrum over ridges on its abdomen, which makes a sound.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？

小到能坐在你的指甲上

Large velvet 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)

Large velvet 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

Their thick, armoured skin is so strong that related species in North America have been reported to escape from the mouths of lizards and frogs.1

Females can sneak into the nests of paper wasps and steal their food stores, possibly because they can disguise their scent so the paper wasps cannot detect them.1

The size of the adult wasp depends partly on the size of its host: wasps raised in honeybees are smaller than those raised in bumblebees.1

Females are wingless, but males have wings.1

Males die soon after emerging in autumn, while females hibernate over winter, sometimes in the host nest or at the roots of low plants.1

谣言粉碎机

谣言： The nickname "cow killer" means the sting can kill cows.

真相： The nickname is inappropriate. Its sting is painful, but its venom is much less toxic than a honeybee's, and it is not aggressive.1

给毒液专家

学名: Mutilla europaea
类别: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和大黄蜂
家人: Mutillidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
大洲: 欧洲, 亚洲
宝宝: The female lays an egg into a bee cocoon, where the wasp larva feeds on the host pupa.1
对人的危险: 2 / 5: 很疼3