{"id":552343,"date":"2026-04-26T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:39:08","slug":"new-zealand-drafts-in-kent-and-sussex-asian-hornet-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552343\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand drafts in Kent and Sussex Asian hornet hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British bee inspectors have been sharing their expertise in tracking the yellow-legged hornets with teams hoping to eradicate the invasive predator in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The yellow-legged hornet, also known as the Asian hornet, was first spotted in New Zealand last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight against the insects in the South East of England has seen Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) officers fit tiny radio tracking devices in a bid to find their nests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Etheridge, who led the teams hunting the hornets in Kent and Sussex, spent more than a month in New Zealand teaching staff at Biosecurity New Zealand the &#8220;fieldcraft&#8221; of how to fit and use the trackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British bee inspectors have been sharing their expertise in tracking the yellow-legged hornets with teams hoping to eradicate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-552343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552343","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=552343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}