Trapping Guides

It is important when trapping to use the correct bait to suit your target animal.

This minimizes capturing non target animals.

View our bait tips for successful trapping of cats, possums, rabbits, mustelids, rodents and magpies.

Customers are reporting high success rates with live capture traps, with some reporting capture rates at least 10 times greater than kill traps and other trapping methods. Grant Ryan, from The Cacophony Project, conducted a trial over a 4 week...

A long warm summer, leading to high seeding in New Zealand forests and a population explosion of rats, stoats and other predators; that's the Department of Conservation's prediction for this year. The Mega-Mast Is the term given to this years high seeding....

Through word of mouth, we heard of these traps, and contacted Pestgard, who supplied a sample of the trap.

“We have, since October 2012, now purchased over 750 of these traps, and have found the trap to be of high quality and easy to use”

Stoats along with ferrets have been named 'number 1 public enemy' of our native birds.Originally introduced to New Zealand as a means to try and control a growing rabbit population, mustelids (stoats, ferrets and weasels) have boomed in population themselves...

Want to know how to trap possums? Possums are the number 1 enemy of New Zealands native forest. In some areas they have destroyed whole canopies of forest, killing trees and reducing habitat for native birds.Possum trapping is a way...