Unfortunately, some birds in Hawai'i, including puaiohi (Myadestes palmeri), and in New Zealand, have been killed by the widely used Goodnature A24 rat-stoat self-resetting trap (A24s) during rodent control. To help address this problem, we conducted two sets of aviary t...
Goodnature A24 rat+stoat self-resetting traps (A24s) are used globally for invasive rat control, yet adequate efficacy testing has not occurred against house mice. Our objective was to test efficacy of A24s against wild house mice. We first used cage/pen trials to determ...
Goodnature A24 self-resetting rat traps are increasingly used to manage black rats for conservation purposes, but have not been tested in agricultural settings. Therefore, we used a replicated treatment- control randomized block design to test the efficacy of: 1) 0.005% dipha...
Both sites have established Goodnature A24 trap grids with 300 A24s deployed by the Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project (KFBRP), and one site is fenced to exclude invasive ungulates. KFBRP conducts routine trap checks every four months, finding 0鈥 3 rat or mouse carcasses at ...
We used 10 self-resetting traps (A24 rat and stoat traps, Goodnature Ltd., Wellington, NZ), along with existing single kill DOC200 traps at two devices per hectare on a 9.3 hectare island in New Zealand to reduce rat numbers and ideally achieve eradication. Each self...