{"id":253712,"date":"2026-01-27T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253712\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:33:08","slug":"more-yellow-legged-hornet-queens-found-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253712\/","title":{"rendered":"More yellow-legged hornet queens found in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764531669_529_4JXWF8A_Nornet_good_crop_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Yellow-legged hornets are an invasive species, and a danger to local honey and wild bees.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nYellow-legged hornets are an invasive species, and a danger to local honey and wild bees.<br \/>\nPhoto: Biosecurity NZ\n<\/p>\n<p>The number of yellow-legged hornet queens found in Auckland has risen to 45 &#8211; 32 of them with nests.<\/p>\n<p>Biosecurity New Zealand said it had an excellent response from the public, with 10,270 notifications of suspected sightings.<\/p>\n<p>Even though only a small number of them were actually hornets, the organisation urged Aucklanders to stay on the lookout.<\/p>\n<p>It expected to find more this summer and there were dozens of traps around the city, mostly on the North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>Biosecurity teams were also attaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584529\/earring-sized-transmitters-introduced-in-war-against-yellow-legged-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tiny trackers<\/a> onto worker hornets to try to lead them to nests.<\/p>\n<p>The hornets had only been found in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Biosecurity NZ believed it was unlikely they were outside of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The hornets were a risk to bee populations &#8211; they eat them but could also compete with them food if they became established.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yellow-legged hornets are an invasive species, and a danger to local honey and wild bees. Photo: Biosecurity NZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-253712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253712","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=253712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}