Mouse plague update

Hi

Only advice I can provide is don’t let mice control your life. Look what happened to Willard:) Go for it! Show them who's boss!!

Cheers
Greg

Nothing has been reported as yet.

Though with the decent rains we have recently had in the west of N.S.W. & northern S.A. they could breed up.

I stopped overnight in that rest area on the S.A./N.T. border last August, and they were everywhere.

Keep everything closed up and they shouldn't be a problem.

Hi Gordon,

They will breed back up with the recent rains but so has foxes/cats. They are everywhere at the moment, Hit 2 foxes and 1 cat coming back from Broken hill last night. They'll help to keep numbers in check.

Cheers Wilko

Take some mouse traps and bait them near each wheel of the vehcile's. It will slow the numbers crawling up the tyres or up the stone flap at the back.

We had some joy riders from Dalhousie and it took us three days to ge rid of them out of the vehicle. They love corn chips. If you dropped one in the vehicle they will find it. They don't want to eat everything its just that they are inquisitive and that is why they open every food packet you have, just to see if it is better than the last one they opened.

Some people set a couple of traps in the closest vegetation to where you are stopped. This gets em before they make the dash for your dinner.
These little fellas know the things arriving on rubber dohnuts have tucker inside.

We had them running across burning logs last year. Even crawling up your leg at the pub in william creek. Was crazy. But yeah if you prepare things properly and store food correctly it's not really problem.

The wife not a big fan of them though.

gordon_adel,

you maybe lucky. We had a rat plague last year (Australian long tailed bush rats). The word from the EPA was that they would be around for another 2 seasons.

Well about last October they all disappeared and I haven't seen one since.

There has been enough rain and the grasses are long so I don't know what happened to them. Not that I miss them mind you. They were that hungry that they bit a few people.

Maybe the mice will not appear hopefully.

RA.

What's the go to mice/proof your van or car! We have an expanda so I guess check for any crevices on the bed ends etc, cause I know the buggers can squeeze through a crack? It is just keep the doors closed?

There are no mice in my area between Thargomindah and Hungerford. Cheers zenonie