A mouse plague is ravaging through several states in Australia, causing widespread damage to crops, damage to buildings and infrastructure. A prison had to be evacuated. Why is there a mouse plaque? What can be done to resolve the mouse plague, aside from the obvious pesticide? What can be done to prevent it from happening again?
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The mouse plague has been caused by a “perfect storm” of optimal weather conditions for breeding and the end of the 2017 to 2019 drought.
The mice first appeared in the spring of 2020 when farmers were harvesting a bumper crop.
There was plenty of grain in the paddocks and in storage for the mice to eat, as well as fewer predators, which died during the drought.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-11/mouse-plague-australia-why-it-happens-and-can-it-be-stopped/100195082
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