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Picture this. An invasion of billions of mice terrorising households, climbing up curtains, swarming onto beds and biting people as they sleep, running amok in supermarkets and hospitals and contaminating drinking water. It’s the stuff of nightmares. But far from being a ghoulish product of the imagination, this is the reality in 21st-century Australia, where a rodent plague of Biblical proportions is devastating food supplies and inflicting misery and hardship. In one case, a woman’s house burned down because the mouse army chewed its way through wiring in her attic. It’s the stuff of nightmares. But far from being a ghoulish product of the imagination, this is the reality in 21st-century Australia, where a rodent plague of Biblical proportions is devastating food supplies and inflicting misery and hardship ....
In another report by nine.com.au, they warn that the Sydney mouse plague could be accompanied by snakes. Gerald Dallow from Micropest told Nine that come summer time, the mice would turn from predators to prey. “After the mice, the snakes will follow,” Dallow said. A blessing of good rainfall from Huey has not drowned out the #mouseplague in the central west and parts of the north west, as evidenced by this video from Nyngan, courtesy of local shearer Fergus Brown.#mouseplaguepic.twitter.com/mU0B3XbOW5 However, a report by the Guardian says that this speculation is just that…speculation. According to a CSIRO website dedicated to mouse sightings (yes, that actually exists) the map shows very few sightings with “high” activity in agricultural areas approaching Sydney. ....