Rodent army ‘marching on Sydney’ as farmers fight to stop mice invading their land and even their beds
Hitchcock-esque plague spreads 1,000km across Australia, causing untold damage to the country's eastern coast
25 May 2021 • 6:10pm
Farmers in Australia are being urged to help drive away a growing plague of mice by using an app to track infestations that now stretch more than 1,000km.
They have been found inside homes, in children's classrooms and even in hospitals as they continue to spread in favourable conditions following heavy rains after severe hot and dry spells.
“People are putting the legs of their beds in buckets or pots of water, but the mice are still climbing curtains, jumping onto their beds and biting them," Xavier Martin, a grain farmer from the Liverpool Plains of New South Wales, told The Telegraph.