Rodent plague in outback

We have a property out in the Mallee & had a 3 day wildlife survey there about 3 weeks ago & half the wildlife count was native rodents & marsupials & the other half were feral varieties.
Lots of young animals were in the mix due to the great rainfalls.

Cheers
Stu

a lot of them would be the native sticknest and bush rats . the next thing to watch out for are the letterwinged and black shouldered kite and various other birds of prey feeding and breeding around the plagues

while I have no expeience with this plague

thers an excellent chance their nothing more than the common house mouse

these things are as much at home in the middle of no where as your kitchen cupboard

would be good if the locals are thriving as well

Wouldn' know what kind of mouse they are, but on Landline on the ABC today they were covering the plague somewhere and said there were 8000 mice per hectare.

Hi I live in SW Qld on Kilcowera Station, our mice are mostly the common house mice but there are native ones as well. The recent cold weather has steadied the population up in my area. Another cold snap might sort them right out, we are supposed to get very cold this week. Cheers Zenonie

We live just south of the Ngarkat and having never seen an Aussie plague so I can only guess we're in one now. On average I pick up in excess of 20 dead mouse per day in my garden.

We're using 8 kg + of bait, just around our house alone. They're in our cars, houses etc. We have found they are now trying to eat through the concrete door step to try and get in!

In an evening you have to be careful to bash the log on the log trolley before bringing it in as cling ons are known!

We camped at Pink Lakes in Sunset National Park after Easter and at midnight had to pack up and come home with two slightly disturbed boys having been attacked in their tents!

Been through Dubbo and Wellington NSW in the last week and there are lots of mice around, though nothing like the plague of 1987. They have been bad in the central west and had reports of other campers that it takes a few days after leaving dubbo and wellington to rid them all from the van/camper.

Hi

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Cheers

George