Swathes of mice are infesting rural towns in Australia after its bumper grain harvest and destroying crops as the country continues to battle its out-of-control rodent plague. Experts claim the plague is due to the recent heavy summer rains across eastern Australia which hit the country earlier after years of drought. This month Melanie Moeris, from Gilgandra, shared footage of hundreds of mice scurrying over machinery on her family's farm. Rodent numbers have exploded just as rural communities across New South Wales and Queensland were recovering from droughts and fields were beginning to return to green. She said farmers in the town were having to burn crops that weren't safely stored in silos because of contamination.

Source: The Nation March 20, 2021 19:18 UTC