{"id":135571,"date":"2025-11-15T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135571\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:24:08","slug":"more-predator-hornets-found-in-auckland-total-of-queens-now-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135571\/","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":135572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,30642,1558,3246,34298,16558,1874,305,71993,71994,78,130,92769,111,43,139,425,69,1118,32318,69656,18746,3940],"class_list":["post-135571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","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-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-predator","tag-queens","tag-size","tag-total"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135571","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=135571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}