{"id":118534,"date":"2025-11-05T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118534\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:44:08","slug":"biosecurity-nz-sets-120-traps-on-aucklands-north-shore-amid-yellow-legged-hornet-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118534\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosecurity NZ sets 120 traps on Auckland\u2019s North Shore amid yellow-legged hornet hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo support surveillance, Biosecurity New Zealand is laying traps in a measured way in areas where females have been found. By the end of today, we will have 120 traps in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

The yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) presents a biosecurity concern because of its potential impact on honeybee and wild bee populations.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe yellow-legged hornet (far left) compared to species established in New Zealand: (from left) German wasp (Vespula germanica), Asian paper wasp (Polistes chinensis) and Australian paper wasp (Polistes humilis). Photo \/ Biosecurity New Zealand<\/p>\n

\u201cMany countries throughout Europe and Asia have yellow-legged hornet and manage it. However, we don\u2019t want it here and that is why we\u2019re tracking it down,\u201d Inglis said.<\/p>\n

He said there had been a \u201cfantastic response\u201d to Biosecurity NZ\u2019s request for help with surveillance.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, we\u2019ve received more than 1000 notifications via email and phone with no new confirmed finds since the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of the public are asked to report any sightings of suspected hornets or hornet nests online<\/a>, or by calling Biosecurity NZ\u2019s exotic pest and disease hotline on 0800 809 966.<\/p>\n

\u201cMembers of the public are asked to report any sightings of suspected hornets or nests, but only if they have a specimen, a clear photo of the suspected hornet, or have found a possible hornet nest,\u201d Biosecurity NZ said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTo support surveillance, Biosecurity New Zealand is laying traps in a measured way in areas where females have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[26589,534,22398,3952,682,13432,13982,83814,273,71993,71994,10937,111,139,529,69,90,25087,13120,147,1973,18484,27218,11226,26951,71992],"class_list":["post-118534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-26589","tag-amid","tag-aucklanders","tag-aucklands","tag-being","tag-biosecurity","tag-continues","tag-creatures","tag-environment","tag-hornet","tag-hornets","tag-hunt","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-predatory","tag-remain","tag-science","tag-sets","tag-shore","tag-traps","tag-urged","tag-vigilant","tag-yellowlegged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}