{"id":16458,"date":"2026-01-27T20:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16458"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:37:20","slug":"more-yellow-legged-hornet-queens-found-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16458","title":{"rendered":"More yellow-legged hornet queens found in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of yellow-legged hornet queens found in Auckland has risen to 45 &#8211; 32 of them with nests.<\/p>\n<p>Biosecurity New Zealand said it had an excellent response from the public, with 10,270 notifications of suspected sightings.<\/p>\n<p>Even though only a small number of them were actually hornets, the organisation urged Aucklanders to stay on the lookout.<\/p>\n<p>It expected to find more this summer and there were dozens of traps around the city, mostly on the North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>Biosecurity teams were also attaching\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584529\/earring-sized-transmitters-introduced-in-war-against-yellow-legged-hornets\">tiny trackers<\/a>\u00a0onto worker hornets to try to lead them to nests.<\/p>\n<p>The hornets had only been found in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Biosecurity NZ believed it was unlikely they were outside of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The hornets were a risk to bee populations &#8211; they eat them but could also compete with them food if they became established.<\/p>\n<p>~ RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of yellow-legged hornet queens found in Auckland has risen to 45 &#8211; 32 of them with nests. Biosecurity New Zealand said it had an excellent response from the public, with 10,270 notifications of suspected sightings. Even though only a small number of them were actually hornets, the organisation urged Aucklanders to stay on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16460,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions\/16460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}