{"id":286619,"date":"2025-11-15T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286619\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:49:08","slug":"more-predator-hornets-found-in-auckland-total-of-queens-now-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286619\/","title":{"rendered":"More predator hornets found in Auckland, total of queens now 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne nest was more developed and contained a queen<\/a>, two worker hornets and two adults which were about [to] emerge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other nest was less developed and contained a queen.\u201d<\/p>\n

That nest was the size of a golf ball, authorities said.<\/p>\n

More than 120 people are taking part in the response, with more than 180 traps set as part of the searches .<\/p>\n

The ground searches have involved visual inspections of common nesting sites such as trees, fencelines and roof eaves.<\/p>\n

\"BiosecurityBiosecurity NZ staff have been hanging traps in areas near where bee-eating Asian yellow-legged hornet queens were detected in the Auckland suburbs of Glenfield and neighbouring Birkdale. Photos \/ Biosecurity NZ<\/p>\n

The searches will expand to include local parks and reserves next week.<\/p>\n

The latest finds take the total number of queen hornets found in Auckland to nine. The first queen hornet was found building a nest in mid-October.<\/p>\n

Authorities continue to urge members of the public to report any suspected hornets or nests. However, people are being asked to report only if they have a specimen, a clear photo or have located a possible nest.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic interest remains high, with more than 2000 notifications received so far,\u201d MPI says.<\/p>\n

Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOne nest was more developed and contained a queen, two worker hornets and two adults which were about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,22065,63,7779,22806,32609,165347,740,5405,1899,165345,81480,4717,12536,165346,7811,1787,22833,23745,128,123914,54180,338],"class_list":["post-286619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-ball","tag-been","tag-both","tag-containing","tag-cricket","tag-found","tag-have","tag-hornet","tag-hornets","tag-in","tag-more","tag-nests","tag-now","tag-of","tag-predator","tag-queens","tag-science","tag-size","tag-total","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}