Posts for Trapping

Discover how New Zealand’s first queen yellow-legged hornet detection is prompting locals to build DIY wasp traps to protect honeybees and crops from this invasive threat.

Pukeatua Farmstay has a number of various mechanical traps and bait station spread around the property.

The weather has turned from somewhat wet and warm to rather wet and cold. The horses have been rugged up just like the goats. The rodent infestation has become noticeable, so we started putting up more traps on top of the traps and bait stations…

Today was a sad day at Pukeatua Farmstay. We had to say goodbye to Peekie, our female Buff Orpington Duck. She was all well last night and this morning we found her in a corner of the duck run. She must have died overnight.