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At night, the floors of sheds vanish beneath carpets of scampering mice.

May 28, 2021 Share At night, the floors of sheds vanish beneath carpets of scampering mice. Ceilings come alive with the sounds of scratching. One family blamed mice chewing electrical wires for their house burning down. Vast tracts of land in Australia’s New South Wales state are being threatened by a mouse plague that the state government describes as “absolutely unprecedented.” Just how many millions of rodents have infested the agricultural plains across the state is guesswork. “We’re at a critical point now where if we don’t significantly reduce the number of mice tha...

“We just sow and hope,” he said. The risk is that the mice will maintain their numbers through the Southern Hemisphere winter and devour the wheat, barley and canola before it can be harvested. NSW Farmers, the state’s top agricultural association, predicts the plague will wipe more than 1 billion Australian dollars ($775 million) from the value of the winter crop. The state government has ordered 5,000 liters (1,320 gallons) of the banned poison Bromadiolone from India. The federal government regulator has yet to approve emergency applications to use the poison on the perimeters of cr...

Australia Could Lose Over $775M in Crops as Millions of Mice Invade Fields On 5/28/21 at 9:45 AM EDT Australian farmers could face a more than $775 million loss in crops from a plague of mice that are taking over their fields in New South Wales, the Associated Press reported. To try to prevent the mice from devouring everything, the state government has ordered 1,320 gallons of bromadiolone, a banned poison, from India. Approval from a federal government regulator has yet to come, and there are concerns that other animals, such as wedge-tail eagles and family pets, might be exposed to the dea...

BOGAN GATE, Australia — At night, the floors of sheds vanish beneath carpets of scampering mice. Ceilings come alive with the sounds of scratching. One family blamed the burning down of their house on mice chewing electrical wires. Vast tracts of land in Australia’s New South Wales state, home to Sydney, are being threatened by a mouse plague that the state government describes as “absolutely unprecedented.” Just how many millions of rodents have infested the agricultural plains across the state is guesswork. “We’re at a critical point now where if we don’t significantly reduce...