{"id":135675,"date":"2025-11-15T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135675\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:54:10","slug":"hornet-nests-found-100m-apart-on-aucklands-north-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135675\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornet nests found 100m apart on Auckland’s North Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two yellow-legged<\/a> hornet nests, found just over 100 metres apart, have been removed on Auckland’s North Shore. <\/p>\n

More of the aggressive predators, which threaten people’s health, biodiversity and honey bees, have been found in Auckland<\/a> over the last month. <\/p>\n

Today, the Ministry of Primary Industries said biosecurity staff detected two nests in the suburb of Glenfield. <\/p>\n

The nests found were just over 100m apart from one another in the same area as previous finds. <\/p>\n

One was described as being the size of a cricket ball, while the other was the size of a golf ball. <\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

Two nests – one the size of a cricket ball and the other the size of a golf ball – were discovered just more than 100 metres apart. (Source: MPI)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne nest was more developed and contained a queen, two worker hornets and two adults which were about the emerge. The other nest was less developed and contained a queen,\u201d northern commissioner for Biosecurity New Zealand, Mike Inglis said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been increasing our ground surveillance this week to 100 metres from detection sites. The detections show this approach is working.” <\/p>\n

There have been nine confirmed queen hornets discovered across Glenfield and Birkdale. All detected hornets and nests have been “safely removed”. <\/p>\n

Biosecurity NZ said it would expand its ground searches next week to include parks and reserves. Staff look for nests in areas such as trees, roof eaves, and fence lines. <\/p>\n

Protein-based traps that attract both workers and queens were being laid with plans to ramp up efforts. <\/p>\n

More than 120 people have been involved in the response, and more than 180 traps have been laid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two yellow-legged hornet nests, found just over 100 metres apart, have been removed on Auckland’s North Shore. More…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[50,51,273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-135675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135675","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=135675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}