A nest of invasive Asian hornets has been \u201csafely removed\u201d by the wildlife service, in a first for Ireland.<\/p>\n
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) completed the \u201csafe control and removal\u201d of the nest from a site in Cork city.<\/p>\n
It is the first recorded instance of a nest in Ireland, which posed a risk to native pollinators and commercial bee hives in the area.<\/p>\n
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Sightings of the invasive species caused significant concern about potential impacts to the local area, and fears of the hornet spreading further into the country.<\/p>\n
The Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O\u2019Sullivan, said: \u201cSince the first confirmed sighting of an Asian hornet in the Cork city area, just over a month ago, the NPWS has been working tirelessly with experts from the NBDC, NMI and with local beekeepers to locate a nest.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemoving the nest today was a challenging, complex operation, conducted by NPWS officers for the first time in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding to further sightings of the hornet across Cork City, Cobh and in Inchicore, Dublin, Mr O\u2019Sullivan said: \u201cI\u2019d like to reassure everyone that each of these is taken very seriously and investigated thoroughly when reported.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Department of Housing said intensive surveying and track-and-trace are being conducted to investigate evidence of further activity.<\/p>\n
The nest was removed under strictly controlled conditions, following international best practice.<\/p>\n
Ainle Ni Bhriain, director of EU and international affairs at NPWS, said: \u201cThe nest has now been transferred to the National Museum of Ireland for examination, as this is the first example of an Asian hornet nest in Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudying it will provide insights about its origins.\u201d<\/p>\n
Members of the public are asked to report any sightings of Asian hornet, along with a photograph, to the National Biodiversity Data Centre at www.invasives.ie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nest of invasive Asian hornets has been \u201csafely removed\u201d by the wildlife service, in a first for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-401736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115155464587583488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}