Overview

• NPWS confirmed a new nest in Cobh hours after retrieving the first-ever Irish nest from a sycamore in Ballintemple, Cork city.
• The Ballintemple nest was removed intact and delivered to National Museum scientists for freezing and DNA analysis.
• Teams in Cobh used tiny electronic transmitters to track hornets and locate the nest in about two days, outpacing earlier triangulation methods.
• Authorities say rapid action is needed before queens disperse, with monitoring under way through feeding stations and a network of traps.
• A separate sighting in Inchicore, Dublin, was a single sterile female not linked to a local nest, and the public is urged to submit photos to invasives.ie rather than set homemade traps.