{"id":2899,"date":"2026-03-25T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:24:45","slug":"vespa-velutina-a-threat-to-all-pollinators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/vespa-velutina-a-threat-to-all-pollinators\/","title":{"rendered":"Vespa velutina, uma amea\u00e7a para todos os polinizadores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Vespa velutina<\/em> n\u00e3o se alimenta apenas de abelhas mel\u00edferas. Um estudo franc\u00eas, publicado na revista<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/00379271.2020.1867005\" title=\"\"> Anais da Sociedade Entomol\u00f3gica de Fran\u00e7a<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, A equipa de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o da Universidade de Lisboa, analisou o ADN de restos de presas encontradas num ninho e identificou mais de 159 esp\u00e9cies ca\u00e7adas pela vespa. As abelhas mel\u00edferas representavam cerca de 38% das presas, enquanto 30% eram moscas e 20% eram vespas sociais. Os investigadores tamb\u00e9m encontraram outros insectos, como Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera e Orthoptera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isto significa que o problema n\u00e3o diz respeito apenas \u00e0 apicultura, mas a todo o ecossistema e \u00e0s produ\u00e7\u00f5es agr\u00edcolas. Um artigo espanhol recente, publicado no <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0301479725024478\" title=\"\">Revista de Gest\u00e3o Ambiental<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, O relat\u00f3rio da Comiss\u00e3o Europeia, de acordo com o seu relat\u00f3rio, sublinha que a propaga\u00e7\u00e3o de vespas invasoras pode constituir um risco para os polinizadores e, por conseguinte, para a quantidade e a qualidade das culturas. A quest\u00e3o est\u00e1 a ser intensificada pelas altera\u00e7\u00f5es clim\u00e1ticas, que permitem que os vesp\u00f5es subtropicais, como o <em>Vespa velutina<\/em> para se espalhar mesmo em regi\u00f5es temperadas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Para o efeito, ser\u00e3o necess\u00e1rias estrat\u00e9gias de gest\u00e3o eficazes para atenuar estes riscos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vespa velutina n\u00e3o se alimenta apenas de abelhas mel\u00edferas que representaram cerca de 38% das presas, enquanto 30% eram moscas e 20% eram vespas sociais e Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera.<br \/>\nIsto significa que o problema n\u00e3o diz respeito apenas \u00e0 apicultura, mas a todo o ecossistema e \u00e0s produ\u00e7\u00f5es agr\u00edcolas.<br \/>\nA propaga\u00e7\u00e3o de vespas invasoras poder\u00e1 representar um risco para os polinizadores e, consequentemente, para a quantidade e qualidade das colheitas. A quest\u00e3o est\u00e1 a ser intensificada pelas altera\u00e7\u00f5es clim\u00e1ticas, que permitem que vespas subtropicais como a Vespa velutina se disseminem mesmo em regi\u00f5es temperadas.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vespa velutina does not feed only on honey bees that accounted for about 38% of the prey, while 30% were flies and 20% were social wasps and Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera. 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The issue is being intensified by climate change, which allows subtropical hornets such as Vespa velutina to spread even into temperate regions.","twitter:creator":"@apimondia","twitter:image":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/apimondia-logo-small-1.webp"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"2899","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":{"focus":{"keyphrase":"","score":0,"analysis":{"keyphraseInTitle":{"score":0,"maxScore":9,"error":1}}},"additional":[]},"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"featured","og_image_url":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/velutina-by-stopvelutina.jpg","og_image_width":"1200","og_image_height":"627","og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":"","og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"BlogPosting","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":"-1","robots_max_videopreview":"-1","robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":"default","local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":{"faqs":[],"keyPoints":[],"titles":[],"descriptions":[],"socialPosts":{"email":[],"linkedin":[],"twitter":[],"facebook":[],"instagram":[]}},"created":"2026-03-25 21:22:58","updated":"2026-03-26 09:59:56","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/category\/uncategorized\/\" title=\"Highlights\">Highlights<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tVespa velutina, a Threat to All Pollinators\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt"},{"label":"Highlights","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/category\/uncategorized\/"},{"label":"Vespa velutina, a Threat to All Pollinators","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/vespa-velutina-a-threat-to-all-pollinators\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/prt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}