Trapping Guides

New Zealand is a beautiful country! Our landscapes of unrivaled, pristine scenery are world class, unique and second to none.

These landscapes provide a unique environment for insects, bats, reptiles and birds and many of these species are exclusive to New Zealand - they are not found anywhere else in the world. 72% of our native birds and 81% of our native insects are unique to our country. If they’re gone from here, they’re gone from everywhere.

We saw a need in the market for a strong, durable, robust trap that could handle New Zealand's extreme coastal conditions, and was manufactured in New Zealand.

After many ideas, designs and prototypes the Tunnel Trap MK2 entered the scene.

Why use live capture cage traps?

Live capture cages are ideal traps to use for pest control

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...