21-03-2021, 01:20 PM
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Re: Mouse plague in Australia !!
Originally Posted by Bruce
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Actually there is a cloud band stretching from NW Australia to the eastern coast of NSW but as I understand the forecast it is feeding into the trough stuck down the east coast which is giving us the bad weather and floods we are experiencing at this moment.The rainfall maps don't really show any large falls west of the divide in NSW (that's the Great Dividing Range)
This is the map for the next 24 hours as you can see falls are diminishing and there are no heavy falls predicted. However rain is expected to continue until Wednesday which will continue to cause problems on the already saturated east coast.
Definitely not an expert on weather forecasting so can only repeat BOM information
If past mouse plagues are anything to go by winter will remove the problem.
http://www.bom.gov.au/
That looks like eastern Ozzy to me Brucy ??
Do you mean to say you get infested EVERY summer ?
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21-03-2021, 04:48 PM
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It seems to me that if the "solution" of using poison sends the mice to water sources, it just creates an even greater hazard, but I am not sure what is.
I can't help but feeling sympathy for both the people and the mice. It's a bad deal.
21-03-2021, 05:08 PM
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Re: Mouse plague in Australia !!
Originally Posted by Surfermom
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That was a stunning report. I've never seen anything like it!It seems to me that if the "solution" of using poison sends the mice to water sources, it just creates an even greater hazard, but I am not sure what is.
I can't help but feeling sympathy for both the people and the mice. It's a bad deal.
Ozzie is classed as a water deficient country so mice usually die
before they find water!
BTW, l thought it was oxygen mice look for not water??
Maybe this varies with what poison is used ?
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21-03-2021, 10:56 PM
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Re: Mouse plague in Australia !!
Originally Posted by Donkeyman
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That looks like eastern Ozzy to me Brucy ??Do you mean to say you get infested EVERY summer ?
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As for mice plagues I would guess that they occur somewhere in Australia every 10 or 20 years when conditions are exactly right, ie good harvest for food and wet conditions for moisture. Likewise if conditions are right we get locust plagues though the last one I can remember was when my kids were young - to this day I keep fly screen wire across the front of my car as a precaution.
The rain in the central west (of NSW) will not be enough to wipe the mice out but will reduce numbers because it will flood their burrows and kill the young (according to news reports today).
22-03-2021, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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Good for you Assman you got something right, yes NSW is in eastern Australia. Pat yourself on the back.As for mice plagues I would guess that they occur somewhere in Australia every 10 or 20 years when conditions are exactly right, ie good harvest for food and wet conditions for moisture. Likewise if conditions are right we get locust plagues though the last one I can remember was when my kids were young - to this day I keep fly screen wire across the front of my car as a precaution.
The rain in the central west (of NSW) will not be enough to wipe the mice out but will reduce numbers because it will flood their burrows and kill the young (according to news reports today).
Definitely more than enough to drown a mouse ??
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22-03-2021, 11:23 PM
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I would have thought because of the floods that all sorts of wild creatures who normally make their 'homes' under ground have got flooded out, so have had to leave their burrows, nests, tunnels etc to find new accommodation and a food supply pretty quick?23-03-2021, 12:49 PM
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Re: Mouse plague in Australia !!
Originally Posted by Mups
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I would have thought because of the floods that all sorts of wild creatures who normally make their 'homes' under ground have got flooded out, so have had to leave their burrows, nests, tunnels etc to find new accommodation and a food supply pretty quick?
But don't forget, one female can pop out six new little mouse's
at one shot !!
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23-03-2021, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Donkeyman
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That is so Mups!But don't forget, one female can pop out six new little mouse's
at one shot !!
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Yes I know m'dear, but I was offering a possible explanation of why everywhere is inundated with them all of a sudden.
It made sense to me that one reason could be because they have all had to surface in their multitudes into the above-ground human world because their underground homes have been flooded.
23-03-2021, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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It’s very sad to see a rabbit dying of myxomatosis it’s a horrible lingering death.
I agree Muddy. Years ago I used to see rabbits blinded and struggling quite a lot, but haven't seen any for years now.
24-03-2021, 01:17 AM
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Re: Mouse plague in Australia !!
Originally Posted by Donkeyman
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Well the floods we see on our telly look pretty big to me Brucy??Definitely more than enough to drown a mouse ??
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A town called Moree is copping the floods at the moment it is not that far inland but it is about 950km north west of me which is about the same distance as London to Milan. Moree is much closer to Broken Hill than me but it is still 850km and a time zone away yet all are still in NSW. (Those are straight line distances, it is a lot further by road.)
I don't know how these floods will affect the mouse plague, it will no doubt reduce their numbers but mice can swim and climb and it will take a biblical flood to get rid of them. I think they will only be controlled by the cold weather as has happened in the past.
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