It’s ‘raining mice’ in Australia
Image: The Sun
At least it’s not ‘raining’ mice from the sky, except it IS down under and that’s just for starters.
Australia is suffering from a mouse plague and one journalist caught the rodents literally “raining” from the sky in a viral video as hundreds were expelled from a grain bin. Some were alive and some were dead.
Many horror stories are being told by Australians concerning the inundation of mice in the country. Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Lucy Thackray highlighted the plague of rodents as she videoed them in New South Wales while a farmer cleaned out a silo.
“Even if grain’s in silos, mice can get to it. Like Tyler Jones discovered in Tullamore when cleaning out the auger and it started raining mice,” Thackray tweeted attaching her video.
“People out here are struggling badly with them in our houses,” Jones told the Daily Mail Australia. “My 90-year-old mother-in-law is living out of an esky because it’s the only way she can mouse-proof her food.”
“Mice are in everything, rooves and walls eating wiring, cupboards, and pantries eating, nesting in and soiling in food and clothing, in cars and machinery chewing through wiring,” Jones stated. “The smell of dead mice is overwhelming, it’s everywhere.”
Farmers have pleaded with the Australian government to help eradicate millions of mice but they say there is no money in the budget for it. Homes and farms all across New South Wales have been invaded by swarms of rodents over the past few months destroying most of their crops. The mice have also overwhelmed southern Queensland. There are reports of the rodents getting into hospitals and biting patients as well.
New South Wales farmers and the Country Women’s Association met on Tuesday at the State Parliament to discuss what to do about the plague and how much it has impacted everyone’s lives. They asked the government for $25,000 per farm to assist in buying and setting up mouse bait to help kill the mice and save their crops and homes.
Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall told the beleaguered farmers and homeowners that after the country spent billions of dollars on the drought crisis, they simply did not have the money to support the fight against the mice plague. Instead, they lamely offered them workshops on how to handle the invasion.
“The proposal that I’ve read in media reports would cost anywhere between $600-700 million. After spending nearly $4.5 billion in drought support, I don’t have that money on my fingertips,” Marshall complained.
Lisa Minogue, who is a farmer in central New South Wales, claimed the mice just kept coming and couldn’t be stopped. She also said that the smell they left behind was “horrific.”
“You can pick up all the mice you see but there is always more,” she noted. “I did 38 loads of washing in three days. My house is pretty much packed up in boxes.”
As bad as dealing with the mice directly is, the financial ramifications are even worse. Jones stated: “We are trying to sow winter crops, an almost impossible task with mice eating the grain straight from the ground.”
“We’re trying to fill grain contracts made before the plague with mouse-infested grain,” she added. “I know it has certainly had a psychological impact on my husband and living with mice crawling through the walls and ceiling all night keeping you awake would drive anyone up the wall.”
Some farmers are experiencing losses of somewhere between $50,000 and $150,000 due to the destruction. A survey found that over 80 percent of farmers had suffered significant damage to machinery and infrastructure as well from the mice.
Local media reports that just one pair of mice can produce up to 500 offspring in a single season.
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Protestant
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Thanks for posting this fascinating article. I tried to find more information about what causes these mice plagues and where else in the world they occur, but only found that they happen exclusively in Australia and in one province of China. The only information I could find on China was one plague of billions of mice driven into fields after their island homes were flooded, but in the photo of a farmer holding them up, they looked more like bank voles to me.
Why should mice plagues occur only in Australia every few years, and nowhere else in the world’s grain-growing regions? Is it because the European house mouse has few natural Australian predators to prevent their numbers from reaching plague proportions? Is it because Australia’s climate is unique? I don’t understand it.
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Doug Harrison
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In 1956 I was travelling with stock cross country ( known locally as overland droving) in Western Queensland There had been a very good wet season (summer) and the growth of grasses and herbage was spectacular. Toward the end of the period we were nearing Winton rail head and came across, over several days, a vast rat plague covering many square miles. They ate everything down to to the roots and then ate the roots. Following this were plagues of snakes and wild cats. It was common to see eight foot king browns with two lumps in their bellies sunning themselves on the bare ground. I guess that eventually these predators and disease and starvation brought the population back to normal. It certainly was not comfortable sleeping on the ground in those circumstances and though neither I nor my companions were bitten, the cattle certainly were as I saw it happen in the moonlight when on watch.
There is nothing abnormal about this. Australia is a country of extremes and such things happen occasionally, though most Aussies who live in cities ( and most of them do) never experience such wonders.
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ROGER
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I TOO HAVE LIVED UNDER THE SAME KIND OF MICE, RATS, TYPE OF EXPERIENCE, HERE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, USA.
FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS, I MOVED TO THE EDGE OF TOWN WHERE I WAS HOPEING TO HAVE PEACE OF MIND AND NOT HAVEING TO HEAR THE SIRENES OF AMBULANCES AND POLICE CARS, EVERY NIGHT OR DAY, AND INSTEAD FOUND MYSELF RENTING AN OLD HOE THAT SITS ON PILEONS OVER 24” INCH ABOVE DIRT GROUND.
THE RENT WAS WHAT MADE ME FALL IN THE TRAP WITH A LAND LORD THAT LIVES OUTSIDE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, SO NOBODY TO COMPLAY ABOUT MY PROBLEM, THE HOUSE SIDEINGS WERE COMPRESSED CARDBOARD, WITH NO BLACK INSOLATING PAPER ON THE WALLS , NO INSOLATION AND NO ROOF INSOLATION, 2 YEARS AFTER I MOVE IN BEGAN TO HEAR NOCES BETWEEN THE WALLS AND I THOUGH IT WAS THE TREE BRANCHES THAT WERE CAUSEING THE NOICE WHEN THE WIND WAS MOVING, SO I PAID LITTLE ATENTION THEN I BEGAN TO HEAR LIKE SOME ONE WAS KNOCKING ON THE WALLS AND I WOULD COME TO THE DOOR TO SEE IF THERE WAS SOME ONE OUTSIDE THE HOUSE LOOKING FOR ME UNTIL ONE DAY I LEARNED WHO WAS DOING THE KNOCKING IT WAS WOODY WOOD PECKERS, THAT WERE MAKEING HOLES ON THE CARD BOARD SIDEING THOSE HOLE HELPED THE RATS TO BEGIN TO INVADE THE INSIDE OF MY NOME,
AT THIS POINT I HAD A DOG AND BOUGHT HIM A COMPANION FEMALE HUSKY TO PLAY WITH HER SOON THEY BEGAN TO MATE, AND HAD HALF BREED HUSKIES WITH LONG HAIR GERMAN SHEPHEARD/ROTHWALER MIX SO I COULD NOT HAVE CATS TO HELP ME GET RID OF THE MICE AND RATS, I COULD NOT GET RAT PILLS POISON TO GET RID OF THEM BUT THEN I BEGAN TO SEE MICE AND RATS BEEN KILLED BY MY DOGS, AND LEARN THAT DOGS ARE BETTER HUNTERS THAN CATS OF RATS AND MISE I LET 3 OF MY DOGS INSIDE THE HOUSE, AND THE REST OUTSIDE, THEY HAVE BEEN CLEANING MY HOUSE OF MICE AND RATS THEMSELVES, THEY ARE GREAT HUNTERS, OF RATS AND THEY WONT EAT THEM INSTEAD THEY BRING THEM OUT WHERE I CAN SEE THEM AND DISPOSE OF THEM MYSELF ANY WHERE BETWEEN 5 TO 7 ARE KILLED OUT SIDE AND SAME INSIDE THE HOUSE THEY CAN FOLLOW THEIR SMELL AND ARE SUPER QUICK TO CATCH THEM EVEN WHEN THE SMALL MICE ARE FAST MY DOGS DON’T MISS WITH THEIR PAWS
PASS THE WORD TO THOSE PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA TO GET DOGS, HUSKIES ARE GREAT HUNTERS OF RATS AND MISE AND THEY ARE ALSO GOOD COMPANIONS JUST DON’T LEAVE ANY THING THEY CAN BRAKE CLOSE TO THEM BECAUSE THEY WILL PUT THEIR TEETH TO IT JUST DON’T LET THE HUSKIES GROW IN NUMBERS BECAUSE THEY LIKE TO REPRODUCE THEMSELVES EVERY 3TO 4 MONTHS.
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Mark Tapley
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Mice and rats can take over if not kept under control. They are very destructive, not only eating into insulation and structure but many times will get into electrical wiring causing major problems. When there are food sources around they are particularly hard to bait for and kill and are finicky about what they will eat. The best product to bait them with is Ditrec powder. All they have to do is walk in the stuff or get it on their fur,. They will lick it off and then bleed to death.
The problem is that the Pest control people maintain a racket with the legislators (kick backs) in order to keep you from getting it unless you have a license. This is job security. All they have to do is say, well a cat or something might get into it. Cats are not attached to it and it can be easily put out where no other animals go. Mice reproduce several batches per year and must be kept under control before they become a problem. Any time the government gets involved in anything the problem gets worse. By taking all power away from the the rats in government except for very basic duties it would leave lots of resources in the hands of the landowners to take care of the other rat problems,.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Doug , Roger, Protestant and hopefully other PSI Readers,
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” (Einstein)
Doug and Roger have shared their experience of living in the NATURAL WORLD which most of the SCIENTIST living today have never experienced. Protestant has made the effort to do a ‘LITERATURE SEARCH’ to learn more about what is NATURALLY occurring in Australia. And any PSI Reader should be able to understand everything which you THREE has written.
However, I am disappointed that no one has yet shared that there are many examples of cyclic population Explosions that commonly have occurred. Army worms which defoliate trees and the next year or two, there are these big black flies which lay many, many eggs which produce other worms that eat the eggs that the army worms lay. Ruffed grouse which are abundant for a few years and then scarce for a few years. The cause of this cycle I have not read. But it certainly is observed. Rabbits have population cycles. And I believe that it caused by diseases which ‘thin the population as we know has occurred in the case of humans.
And I almost forgot; winter weather can kill many wildlife populations in a single season.
Questions that need to be answered are: Is weather cyclic??? Or, is weather random??? I believe if one carefully observes the WEATHER and its HISTORY, that one will discover that WEATHER is both CYCLIC and RANDOM.
Have a good day, Jerry.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Jerry:
Mice and rat populations will always “explode” when feed is readily available. In the situation as was described in Australia where the rodents have access to feed they will overrun the whole place and at the same time will not eat the bait. That is why I suggested Ditrac powder.
While on the subject of rats, the Zionist operative Einstein had no experience in much of any thing except plagiarizing the work of others while depending on his first wife who did have the necessary education, to formulate the papers so he could get the Jew controlled Nobel Prize. At least the fake scientist gave her the money. Stop peddling the Jew propaganda and get the truth. Read Christopher Bjerknes “The Manufacture and Sale of St. Einstein.” Also “Einsteins Plagiarism of the General Theory of Relativity.”
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Leonard Winokur
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Might “chaotic” be a more technically correct description of weather, where chaotic can be defined as “Unpredictable but non-random”?
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Leonard Winokur
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To each and every affected household and establishment I say: Get yourself some CATS.
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Mark Tapley
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Cats are good for mice but the big Norway rats that get in agricultural buildings and feed bins would be more than most cats would tangle with.
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Syrius33
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Con lo que estoy leyendo, la próxima pandemia va a ser de peste negra (ya desde el año pasado la OMS nos ha estado amenazando con peste negra, virus Hantan, hongo negro, virus Nipah, la “supergonorrea” y toda la colección que mantienen en las cajitas de Pandora de ciertos países, para liberar cuando el rebaño humano se indiscipline o lo soliciten sus “filantrópicos donantes”). Los ratones tienen pulgas, con su saliva, su orina y sus heces contaminan todo. Blanco es, gallina lo pone y frito se come.
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