28/08/2026
😢 This is really sad news for our island.
The Isle of Wight Asian Hornet Team are an incredible group of volunteers who work tirelessly to protect our island from Asian Hornets — helping to safeguard our precious biodiversity, wildlife and, of course, our honeybees. 🐝❤️
This is something I NEED you all to do for me. 🙏
📱 Please download the Asian Hornet Watch app and report any suspected sightings.
That’s it. You don’t need to identify it, catch it or deal with it yourself.
See it → report it → let the experts take over.
The amazing volunteer team will deal with the rest. 💪🐝
It takes just a couple of minutes to download the app, but reporting a sighting could make a huge difference to protecting our island.
Please share this post too — let’s get as many Isle of Wight eyes looking out for these unwelcome visitors as possible. 👀🐝
Our island. Our bees. Our biodiversity. Let’s protect them. 💚
The Isle of Wight’s first credible sighting of an Asian hornet has been recorded in Cowes, triggering an urgent search for a nest by the IW Asian Hornet team. Photographic evidence confirmed the presence of the