{"id":133388,"date":"2025-10-20T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133388\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:48:10","slug":"first-asian-hornet-nest-discovered-in-northern-ireland-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133388\/","title":{"rendered":"First Asian hornet nest discovered in Northern Ireland removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Asian hornet nest discovered in the Dundonald area of Belfast has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Ireland Environment Agency(NIEA) described the process on Saturday as \u201csafe and controlled\u201d and said its officers worked with a \u201csuitably trained\u201d pest control company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They also received advice from the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency and had \u201con-the-ground support\u201d from an official with the National Biodiversity Data Centre in Waterford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The agency said surveillance will continue in the area and urged \u201ccontinued vigilance\u201d from the public and the beekeeping community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The insects were first spotted by a member of the public and reported on October 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s the first nest of its kind discovered in Northern Ireland, and NIEA say Asian hornets pose a \u201csignificant threat\u201d to honeybees, native insects, pollinators and local ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Asian hornet nest discovered in the Dundonald area of Belfast has been removed. The Northern Ireland Environment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,13261,133,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-133388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-place-northern-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}