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Mammoth wasp

Megascolia maculata

无害对人无害。不用担心。

蜇伤吃：昆虫

The mammoth wasp is the largest wasp found in Europe. It looks a bit like a very big bumble bee, and it lives in warm, dry places around the Mediterranean and across parts of Asia. Its young grow up inside beetle grubs.1

生活在

Southern and central Europe, north to Belgium, Russia, North Africa and the Near East; recorded in southern Great Britain1

欧洲, 亚洲

首页

It lives in Mediterranean-type habitats such as oak forests, maquis and garrigue. In Russia it is most common around people, where manure piles, sawmills and compost heaps give its prey somewhere to live.1

长度

4.5 cm (1.8 in)1

最高速度

约 45 公里/小时（28 英里/小时）

飞行, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

Adults feed on nectar from flowers. The female hunts for the grubs of the European rhinoceros beetle in dead wood.1

Mammoth wasp的照片 — Mammoth wasp。照片：Dr. Nasser Halaweh。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎样认出它

Glossy black body covered in fine, downy hair1
Two yellow bands across the abdomen, sometimes split into four yellow spots1
Females have a yellow head; males have a black head1
Females can reach 4.5 cm, and males are smaller than females1
Looks like a very large, elongated bumble bee1

常被误认为： It is often confused with Scolia hirta. That wasp is smaller and has a black head.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 female stings the beetle grub to paralyse it, so it cannot move. Its venom is used on prey, not as a defence for people. The sting paralyses the beetle grub so the wasp's larva can feed on it.1

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 轻微像被蜜蜂蜇一下或更轻。对人基本无害。

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？

比你的小指还短8.4 秒就能飞过一整个足球场

Mammoth wasp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？

一个全力冲刺的人 约 37 公里/小时 (23 mph)

Mammoth wasp 约 45 公里/小时 (28 mph)

一辆在城里开的汽车 约 50 公里/小时 (31 mph)

值得了解

事实

It is the largest wasp found in Europe.1

It is a parasitoid: its young develop by feeding on another insect, a beetle grub, which dies in the process.1

Some researchers suggest it was the model for a gold Minoan pendant called the Malia Pendant.1

The European rhinoceros beetle is its main host, but it also lays eggs on the grubs of several other beetles, including the European stag beetle.1

给毒液专家

学名: Megascolia maculata
类别: 蜜蜂、胡蜂和大黄蜂
家人: Scoliidae2
排序: Hymenoptera
大洲: 欧洲, 亚洲
宝宝: The female lays a single egg on a paralysed beetle grub. The wasp larva eats the grub, except its skin, then builds a cocoon and emerges as an adult the following spring.1
对人的危险: 1 / 5: 轻微3