One thing I found really curious when the trust I'm part of starting to make a plan about pest control was that it was hard to find out how others did it and why and what their results were, I wonder if we could start to share what is effective and help problem solve.
I'm part of a trust that has a trapping project on Bluff Hill, we have DoC 150 and 200's, double set, for stoats and weasels, haven't caught a ferret at all yet, they are 200m apart on public walkways on Bluff Hill and at the narrow isthmus there is a network of two lines 50x50 apart. This has worked a treat, we only get the occassional stoat, mainly down around the isthmus well away from the forest though we do have a breeding population of weasels that we're yet to nail, we also have rabbits though!
The rat control and the possum control is done over the forest on the hill with lines cut 100m apart and possum traps 100m apart on those lines and the rat bait stations 50m apart.
The rat bait stations are carpet roll inners with wire to secure the bait in them. The bait we have used so far is diphacinone and that has kept the rats down to 0 on the tracking tunnel though we do see rat poo occassionally in the bait stations.
The possum traps are warriors through the cut lines and possum masters on the public walkways, the rock, reliable and effective, wish we had them all over the hill!
That's it in a nutshell, I'd love to learn how other projects are nailing the pests and what is most effective
:-)
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