{"id":821618,"date":"2026-11-02T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821618\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:16:12","slug":"nest-containing-englands-rarest-ant-species-stolen-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821618\/","title":{"rendered":"Nest containing England&#8217;s rarest ant species &#8216;stolen&#8217; in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chudleigh Knighton Heath is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, while narrow-headed ants are a Section 41 species, nationally rare, and near threatened on the IUCN red list of species, the trust said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A single nest can hold between 1,000 and 5,000 ants, along with one or more breeding queens that can live for as long as 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Balfour said: &#8220;This is the last population of narrow-headed ants in England, and losing even one colony sets back years of careful work by our staff, volunteers and partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Krusin, conservation officer for Buglife&#8217;s Moor Invertebrates Project, said the removal of nests could have a &#8220;catastrophic impact on the population, putting even more pressure on an already threatened species&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chudleigh Knighton Heath is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, while narrow-headed ants are a Section 41 species,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-821618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821618","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=821618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}