{"id":122843,"date":"2020-11-30T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/keyhole-wasps-threaten-airplane-safety-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:10:26","slug":"keyhole-wasps-threaten-airplane-safety-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/keyhole-wasps-threaten-airplane-safety-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Keyhole’ wasps threaten airplane safety in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Keyhole’ wasps threaten airplane safety in Australia<\/strong>”
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\n Move over seagulls, aviation has a new threat \u2014 the keyhole wasp.<\/p>\n

Keyhole wasps like to build their nests in tiny holes, including the opening of devices used to measure the speed of aircrafts, according to new findings conducted over a three year period by Eco Logical Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The research was triggered by several safety incidents involving the wasps, including one in which a plane had to land again soon after departing from Brisbane Airport because the pilots recognized an air speed discrepancy in November 2013.<\/p>\n

After studying the behavior of keyhole wasps (Pachodynerus nasidens) at Brisbane Airport, the team discovered a total of 26 wasp-related issues were reported at the airport between November 2013 and April 2019, in conjunction with a series<\/a> of serious safety incidents involving \u201cpitot probes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wasps had effortlessly built nests in these pitot probes \u2014 which are tube-like instruments often mounted beneath the cockpit on the exterior of an aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a Mayday emergency but it\u2019s the next level down, and it closes the runways,\u201d said biologist Alan House.\u00a0 A blocked pitot probe was found to be the culprit in that case.<\/p>\n

As a result of the research, risk-mitigating strategies have been introduced, such as covering pitot probes when aircraft arrive at Brisbane Airport.<\/p>\n

In South and Central America, where the keyhole wasp is a native species, it is known to build its nest in cavities including keyholes and electrical sockets. \u201cIt\u2019s quite famous for the plasticity of its nesting behavior,\u201d says House.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope this research will bring attention to a little known but serious issue for air travel<\/a> in tropical and subtropical regions,\u201d the biologist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving found its way across the Pacific Ocean, there is no reason to doubt that it could spread to other parts of Australia. The consequences of not managing this clever but dangerous pest could be substantial,\u201d he concluded.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’Keyhole’ wasps threaten airplane safety in Australia” Move over seagulls, aviation has a new threat \u2014 the keyhole wasp. Keyhole wasps like to build their nests in tiny holes, including the opening of devices used to measure the speed of aircrafts, according to new findings conducted over a three year period by Eco Logical Australia….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/keyhole-wasp.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[82193,70908,71812,20358,76423,82198],"class_list":["post-122843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-30-20","tag-airlines","tag-airplanes","tag-australia","tag-bees","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}