{"id":89725,"date":"2025-10-19T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89725\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:08:07","slug":"asian-hornet-nest-in-belfast-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89725\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian hornet nest in Belfast removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Asian hornet nest discovered in the Dundonald area of Belfast has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) described the process as &#8220;safe and controlled&#8221; and said its officers worked with a &#8220;suitably trained&#8221; pest control company.<\/p>\n<p>They also received advice from the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency and had &#8220;on-the-ground support&#8221; from an official with the National Biodiversity Data Centre in Waterford.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/regional\/2025\/1015\/1538796-asian-hornets-ni\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Further sightings of Asian hornets confirmed in Northern Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agency said surveillance will continue in the area and urged &#8220;continued vigilance&#8221; from the public and the beekeeping community.<\/p>\n<p>The insects were first spotted by a member of the public and reported on 10 October.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first nest of its kind discovered in Northern Ireland and the NIEA said Asian hornets pose a &#8220;significant threat&#8221; to honeybees, native insects, pollinators and local ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Asian hornet nest discovered in the Dundonald area of Belfast has been removed. The Northern Ireland Environment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-89725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89725","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=89725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}