Yellow-legged Asian Hornet – UK Outbreak History

2024 Yellow-legged Asian Hornet Sightings

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2023 Yellow-legged Asian Hornet Sightings

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2022: confirmed sightings

  • Rayleigh, Essex - confirmed 27 September - nest destroyed on 30 September
  • Felixstowe, Suffolk - confirmed 29 April - a single hornet captured

2021: confirmed sightings

  • Ascot, Berkshire - confirmed 8 October and the nest was destroyed on 11 October
  • Portsmouth, Hampshire - confirmed 29 October and the nest was destroyed on 31 October

2020: confirmed sightings

  • Gosport, Hampshire - confirmed 8 September and the nest was destroyed on 11 September

2019: confirmed sightings

  • Christchurch, Dorset – confirmed 10 October – nest destroyed
  • Christchurch, Dorset – confirmed 1 October – nest destroyed
  • Ashford, Kent – confirmed 9 September – single hornet captured
  • Tamworth area, Staffordshire – confirmed 2 September – nest destroyed
  • New Milton, Hampshire – confirmed 3 July – single hornet captured

2018: confirmed sightings

  • Dungeness, Kent - confirmed 15 October 2018 - single hornet captured
  • Guildford, Surrey – confirmed 28 September 2018 - single dead hornet
  • Brockenhurst, Hampshire – confirmed 26 September 2018 - nest destroyed
  • New Alresford, Hampshire – confirmed 24 September 2018 - nest destroyed
  • Fowey, Cornwall – confirmed 20 September 2018 - nest destroyed
  • Hull, Yorkshire – confirmed 9 September 2018 - single dead hornet
  • Liskeard, Cornwall – confirmed 7 September 2018 - single dead hornet
  • Fowey, Cornwall – confirmed 3 September 2018 - nest destroyed
  • Bury, Lancashire – confirmed 13 April 2018 - single hornet sighted with photograph

2017: confirmed sightings

  • Woolacombe, Devon – confirmed 26 September 2017 - nest destroyed

2016: confirmed sightings

  • Tetbury, Gloucestershire – confirmed 19 September 2016 - nest destroyed
  • Lower Langford, Somerset – confirmed 30 September 2016 – single hornet captured
  • Bath, Somerset – confirmed 13 October 2016 – single hornet captured