Gross gross gross- we have a mouse plague in Melbourne

I'm glad we decided to move back to the uk and not stay in Melbourne!

I believe mice don’t have bladders they just wee all the time. How gross ?

I remember when clouds of moths filled the evening air one night in Sydney. GS's were screaming as the moths landed on us all, in our hair they were everywhere.
It was in the newspaper next day that the swarms of bogongs had come from Tasmania. They were big too.

Eeeek! Still, there are many worse critters in Oz to have a plague of.
You need a Pied Piper.

Interesting, Ellenvannin. I’ve never seen any reference to a similar phenomenon anywhere else. I know about the ?Monarch butterflies that migrate in the US but the thing we saw seemed different. The walls were black with the insects and our driver used an umbrella in front of us, to try and keep them away from our faces.

I've seen no sign of mice where we are and there is a lot of open ground around us. Maybe as the weather cools we will see them coming inside from the weather. That is not uncommon. Is it really Melbourne that is having a problem? I know farmers are concerned about the damage and destruction to crops. poor farmers, have not had decent crops for years due to drought and when they get a good crop have mice to contend with.

Cats and terriers are totally overwhelmed when there is a true plague of mice they simply cannot keep up and basically give up.

There have been times during these plagues when people have put their bed legs in drums of water so that the mice could not get onto the beds during the night.

It’s the city area apparently but we are out near the Yarra valley wineries so not here yet. I do know that my tomatoes disappeared overnight and something stole my figs before they were ripe but I assumed it was one of our resident possums. I don’t mind them so much as they are native and have a right to their habitation.

I’ve just seen a video of mice on a farm in NSW. Oh, my stars! ? They give me the willies, all running around like that.

When we lived in the Middle East, there was a plague of locusts one year. I’d come home from work to find that the buggers had eaten virtually everything in the mini garden I’d created out of desert and so carefully nurtured.

A friend was a nurse at the local military hospital and some of the local boys who worked there found it very funny to eat a live one in front of her, and see her ? face.
Traditionally a valuable food source, of course, but still....

I was just about to say you need the Pied Piper but lemongrove beat me to it. Only do make sure you pay him or he takes the children!