Plague of Mice

[JohnDB]

'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia

Apparently OZ is under attack from the furry little rodents. After the fires they have sought shelter in homes and farms.

Good luck those of you who live "Down Under".

 

[Addy]

@JohnDB I just HAD TO LOOK....

 

[JohnDB]

@JohnDB I just HAD TO LOOK....

I can't imagine removing 100 dead mice every day from a home and office...their whole work day has to be filled with removing them...

How do they get anything else done is beyond me.

 

[Addy]

@JohnDB..... STOP.... just STOP... LOL

 

[JohnDB]

@JohnDB..... STOP.... just STOP... LOL

You are as bad as my wife. She says that we are never going to go to Australia now...not after those pictures. She can't take it whatsoever.

 

[Addy]

You are as bad as my wife. She says that we are never going to go to Australia now...not after those pictures. She can't take it whatsoever.

I decided not to EVER go to AUSTRALIA years ago....after the HORROR stories about the SNAKES.... NO THANK YOU.

 

[JohnDB]

I decided not to EVER go to AUSTRALIA years ago....after the HORROR stories about the SNAKES.... NO THANK YOU.

One good outbreak of bubonic plague and it's over for the various areas. Nevermind the "lesser" diseases the rodents bring with them.

I betcha those that started the brushfires that started all of this never imagined this result.

I'm wondering what the next thing will be besides the destroyed crops.

 

[JohnDB]

What really gets me is that Australia really dodged the bullet with the coronavirus pandemic. They were one of the least affected countries.

But instead they got this plague... losing this year's crops instead. A devastating financial burden on top of the economic downturn from the Coronavirus.

 

[April_Rose]

I decided not to EVER go to AUSTRALIA years ago....after the HORROR stories about the SNAKES.... NO THANK YOU.

And the spiders the size of dinner plates. Anyways, I was going to suggest for them to get a cat,.. (my own is a real mouser) but forget that they need like a whole entire colony of them to take care of that many mice!

 

[Jay Ross]

Oh you ignorant people in the USA. In the Australian wheat belt, the mice population is cyclic. Our droughts kill off the plague numbers of mice because there is not enough food for them to survive, in very large numbers during drought periods. Then in the progressive good seasons, their numbers grow rapidly until they are in plague proportions, and considering how quickly the number of mice grows, the population of mice can double every month or so.

The snakes are a farmers best friend because their numbers also follows the mice plague numbers as well. When the number of mice is high, so to are the number of snakes. When the mice numbers are low, the number of snakes is also low. That is the nature of the life cycle of mice and snakes.

Were I live, we occasionally see baby snakes in the house, but out in the yard there are few to be seen.

In the USA, you have snow that controls the number of mice from one year to the next. However, I would like to point out that most people have a mice or a rat living within five meters of them all of the the time.

So you city folk, do not fret, you have a mice or rat problem living with you all of the time.

Shalom