Most of the our RatBusters have not been using the app so far, but report (via excell sheet) on the number of bait blocks placed and retrieved. Now it appears that you can only set up bait station in the app with bait added/retrieved in gramms.
It would be great if you could set up the app to have that count in blocks, meaning entering the weigh of a block somewhere which then would automatically calculate the total weight. Should be easy enough to program and would avoid to have our sometime elderly volunteers needing to calculate say 7 x 28g = ???
(not speaking about our younger ones who would need a calculatorâŚ). Even by making it easier to round up to say 7 x 30g would pose a challenge to some and result in inexact figures
The Whangamata Backyard program has over 80 bait stations and is increasing all the time. We only use bait blocks and we would like to be able to add blocks of bait and have totals shown in number of blocks not in grams. This would be simple for our trappers to manage - calculating 28g blocks is not straightforward and just wonât be used.
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Kia ora Lyn and Lenore,
Yes, I too would like a block option on Trap NZ. Why? Because most councils allowing/ supporting volunteer groups such as ours. WHC WhangamatÄ Harbour Care to operate enclosed bait stations on parks and reserves require
us to use diphacinone or D-Block. An enclosed bait station needs to contain the poison/ block. So it cannot be removed by rats/ mice.
I have always monitored how many blocks are used in trap- bait lines so I can estimate a budget needed for the next year and the ebbs and flows of seasonal rat and mice populations.
Please add a block option to Trap NZ.
Sincerely Roselle Gould
Pest Control WHC Committee
YES PLEASE !
We were promised that years ago, and we almost had a special party when we heard. But itâs not happened yet. Fixing this long-standing problem would be great, it has caused so much frustration and even resistance among our volunteers.
For us, some relief has come because we moved from Key Industriesâ Contrac bait (28g /block) to KiwiCareâs Eliminator (20g /block), The arithmetic is so much easier and the amount of checking and editing needing correction is now much less.
But if the project - or even trap.nz - had the main bait types and bait stations available in NZ already entered to select from, then entering the block weight, maximum bait amount, active ingredient etc would be unnecessary. What bliss!
IMHO it should be simple to calculate weight of bait eaten when producing reports.
The more votes the better - those readers who bait, please be sure to add your vote. It seems twelve is not yet enough.
I know you at trap.nz work hard to design and implement new features, and we do appreciate all that, thank you, but this is major issue.
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