A biosecurity alert for Ireland has been issued after a confirmed sighting and subsequent capture of an Asian hornet in the ...

The Asian hornet is between 2.5 and 3cm long, with dark antennae, a long orange face, an entirely brown or black thorax and ...

A biosecurity alert has been declared after an Asian hornet was captured in Cork city.

A single nest of Asian hornets can devastate local honeybee populations - the sighting of them in Cork has led to the ...

The sighting was first reported to the National Biodiversity Data Centre by a member of a public. A single Asian hornet has ...

A national alert has been issued after the discovery of an Asian Hornet in Cork - with fears that there may be a population ...

The Irish Beekeepers' Association has warned that Asian hornets could "wreak havoc" as its preferred food is honey bees.

A ‘biosecurity alert for Ireland’ has been issued following a recent sighting of an Asian hornet in Cork. The wasp was captured and a dedicated taskforce has been created in response to the shocking ...

ASIAN hornets could “wreak havoc” on Ireland following the sighting and capture of the apex predator in Co Cork on Tuesday. The presence of the hornet poses a direct threat to Irish ...

Beekeeper says honey bees are the preferred food of the hornets as she asked the public to be vigilant when travelling to Ireland by ferry as they are 'very good at piggybacking on human transport' ...

AN ASIAN hornet was captured in Cork yesterday in an incident that poses “a significant threat to biodiversity in Ireland”. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has confirmed ...

NPWS Director of International and EU Affairs Áinle Ní Bhríain described the species as "a bit like a wasp, about 2cm long, ...