{"id":5530,"date":"2025-09-07T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:42:15","slug":"nest-of-invasive-asian-hornets-safely-removed-in-first-for-ireland-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5530\/","title":{"rendered":"Nest of invasive Asian hornets \u2018safely removed\u2019 in first for Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is the first recorded instance of a nest in Ireland, which posed a risk to native pollinators and commercial bee hives in the area\n<\/p>\n

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The nest was removed by Claire Deasy and Sam Bayley, both from the NPWS, and David Law, of David Law Tree Care (Department of Housing\/PA)<\/p>\n

A nest of invasive Asian hornets has been \u201csafely removed\u201d by the wildlife service, in a first for Ireland.<\/p>\n

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) completed the \u201csafe control and removal\u201d of the nest from a site in Cork city.<\/p>\n

It is the first recorded instance of a nest in Ireland, which posed a risk to native pollinators and commercial bee hives in the area.<\/p>\n

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The nest was removed by Claire Deasy and Sam Bayley, both from the NPWS, and David Law, of David Law Tree Care (Department of Housing\/PA)<\/p>\n

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Sightings of the invasive species caused significant concern about potential impacts to the local area, and fears of the hornet spreading further into the country.<\/p>\n

The Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O\u2019Sullivan, said: \u201cSince the first confirmed sighting of an Asian hornet in the Cork city area, just over a month ago, the NPWS has been working tirelessly with experts from the NBDC, NMI and with local beekeepers to locate a nest.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemoving the nest today was a challenging, complex operation, conducted by NPWS officers for the first time in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to further sightings of the hornet across Cork City, Cobh and in Inchicore, Dublin, Mr O\u2019Sullivan said: \u201cI\u2019d like to reassure everyone that each of these is taken very seriously and investigated thoroughly when reported.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Housing said intensive surveying and track-and-trace are being conducted to investigate evidence of further activity.<\/p>\n

The nest was removed under strictly controlled conditions, following international best practice.<\/p>\n

Ainle Ni Bhriain, director of EU and international affairs at NPWS, said: \u201cThe nest has now been transferred to the National Museum of Ireland for examination, as this is the first example of an Asian hornet nest in Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudying it will provide insights about its origins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of the public are asked to report any sightings of Asian hornet, along with a photograph, to the National Biodiversity Data Centre at www.invasives.ie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"wing clipped\u00a0|\u00a0 It is the first recorded instance of a nest in Ireland, which posed a risk to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6354,6358,246,61,60,6357,82,6355,6356],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-namelatest-news-ticker","tag-brandsindependent-ie","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ishiddentrue","tag-science","tag-sluglatest-news-ticker","tag-uuidec10736b-5a64-4120-bbf6-88154ac15f82"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}