{"id":123583,"date":"2025-09-08T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:36:10","slug":"wildlife-experts-fear-asian-hornet-piggybacked-to-ireland-on-ferry-from-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123583\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife experts fear Asian hornet \u2018piggybacked\u2019 to Ireland on ferry from Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757363770_80_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Asian Hornets: experts believe the insects arrived in Ireland from trucks, camper vans or even cars from northern France<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland is to review biosecurity measures at Irish ports amid fears the Asian hornet arrived here by \u201cpiggybacking\u201d on trucks, camper vans or even cars from the Continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The revelation came as Irish wildlife officials are assessing the discovery of two Asian hornet nests in Cork, with a third sighting of a lone hornet in Inchicore, Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Asian Hornets: experts believe the insects arrived in Ireland from trucks, camper vans or even cars from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[58760,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-123583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ralph-riegel","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}