Students from Ruakākā and Waipu School met with Steve for the first time at Pukekauri Dam. Steve taught us how to check and re-bait each trap, and the kids were excited to see we had caught a few mice. We also think we caught a glimpse of a weweia. The best part of the day […]

On Thursday the 2nd of November, Paige and Lilah went to Pukekauri Dam and got the record of nine pests caught. We got … two ship rats, two possums, two mice, one Norway rat, and two regular rats and that’s how we got the record! One rat had obviously been there a long time, it […]

Ruakākā School visited Pukekauri today to check out the traps and see if we could spot the elusive Weweia. It was a successful trip, the sun was shining and we had two traps with rats in them. One of our rat traps had a little visitor hiding in it, a baby weta had decided it […]