Australia to blitz mouse plague with ‘NAPALM’ amid fears infestation could DOUBLE every three weeks
Updated: 12:31, 2 Jun 2021
THE Australian government is set to blitz its mouse plague with napalm for mice amid fears the infestation could double every three weeks.
Tens of millions of rampaging mice have sparked horrific outbreaks stretching 1,000km from Brisbane down to Melbourne and tormented farming communities for eight months.
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The state government has secured 5,000 litres of the toxic rodent poison bromadioloneCredit: Reuters
In just three months, two mice can spark a colony of almost 400, rapidly spawning to tens of thousands, Daily Mail Australia reports.
A mouse can live for up to two or three years - and females can start reproducing at just six weeks of age.
Spring cleaning incomplete without properly managing pests
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Now that spring weather finally arrived across the state, many Texans are preparing for spring cleaning.
Not so fast, advises Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service integrated pest management specialist Janet Hurley, Dallas, who says pest management should be high on the list of cleaning activities.
“You can’t actually get your home truly clean without doing two things,” she said. “First, you’ve got to be pesticide-aware of the products you are using and use the proper products for cleaning. Second, you’ve got to take the time to pest-proof your surroundings.”
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She worked with Kamal Gandhi, a UGA professor of forest entomology, to conduct the research through Southern SAREâs Graduate Student Grant program.
Blue orchard mason bees are one of the few bees native to North America that can be a managed pollinator for orchard crops like apples, cherries and blueberries. Mason bees are members of the Osmia bee family and are considered a wild and solitary species. They have no queens or worker bees, and while this dark, metallic blue pollinator may be similar in size to a honey bee, both its lifecycle and interactions with the environment are very different.
Watchdog group petitions EPA to ban Seresto pet collar after thousands report harm Johnathan Hettinger
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The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition Thursday morning asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban a popular flea and tick collar that has been linked to thousands of incident reports about pet and human harm.
The Seresto collar, developed by Bayer and now sold by Elanco, has faced increased scrutiny, including a Congressional inquiry and class action lawsuits, following a March story by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and USA TODAY. The story found more than 75,000 incident reports of harm linked to the collar, including at least 1,698 pet deaths and almost 1,000 people harmed.