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Red dwarf honey bee

Apis florea

名字的由来： It is called a dwarf honey bee because it is small compared with other honey bees. The name Florea is a personal name of Romanian origin.1

无害对人无害。不用担心。

蜜蜂、胡蜂和大黄蜂

蜇伤吃：植物

对人的危险: 轻微像被蜜蜂蜇一下或更轻。对人基本无害。

The red dwarf honey bee is a small, wild honey bee that lives in southern and southeastern Asia. It is one of the smallest honey bees and builds its nest in the open, on branches, instead of inside a hive. It is an important pollinator in many parts of its range.1

生活在

Southeast Asia (including Thailand), northeast India, China, the Middle East, Sudan and Malta1

亚洲

首页

It lives in forests and forested areas at lower elevations. Its single comb hangs open on tree branches or shrubs, often in dense foliage. It also pollinates tropical fruit crops in Thailand.1

长度

7 mm到1 cm (0.3 in到0.4 in)1

最高速度

约 20 公里/小时（12 英里/小时）

飞行, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

Adults eat mainly honey and nectar, and they feed the young on pollen. Future queens are fed royal jelly.1

Red dwarf honey bee的照片 — Red dwarf honey bee。照片：Sam Kieschnick。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎样认出它

A worker is 7 to 10 mm long.1
Its overall colour is red-brown.1
Old workers have a red first abdomen segment.1
It builds one exposed comb, usually on a branch or shrub.1

常被误认为： Apis andreniformis, its sister species, is generally darker. In old bees, the first abdomen segment is completely black, while in this species it is red.1

毒液之力

蜇伤

毒液通过蜇刺出来。

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。

它害怕时会做什么？

When it senses predators, it hisses, shimmers and nests in dense foliage to hide, and it can produce a sticky barrier to block raiding ants.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19 秒就能飞过一整个足球场

Red dwarf honey bee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)

Red dwarf honey bee 约 20 公里/小时 (12 mph)

一个全力冲刺的人 约 37 公里/小时 (23 mph)

值得了解

事实

A colony defends itself with a warning call called piping, which is answered by a loud, coordinated hissing from the whole colony.1

It recycles wax from an old nest when it builds a new one close by, a behaviour other honey bees do not show.1

Its waggle dance is performed on the horizontal top of the comb, where the comb wraps around the branch, not on a vertical face as in many other honey bees.1

A colony was recorded in Malta in 2024, the first fully established colony ever found in Europe.1

Its main natural enemy is the O. smaragdina weaver ant.1