allot to reporting systemMouse Alert , areas around the southeast coast are experience high mouse abundance , with Victoria , New South Wales and Brisbanehit the toilsome . Mice number have been in high spirits for months , but the problem is perplex worsened as the country head into winter , and the mouse are seek shelter indoors .
“ hoi polloi are set up the leg of their bed in bucket or pots of water , but the mice are still climb curtains , leap onto their beds and biting them , " frailty President of the United States of the New South Wales Farmers ’ Association Xavier Martintold the Telegraphof the problem .
“ When they run out of solid food , when they run out of seeds to rust they start cannibalise , they get eating each other , " Martin addedto ITV News . “ They ’re pretty loathsome creature and of grade they ’ve taken over a lot of our homes , our shed , our vehicle , our tractors , we ’ve had machinery sunburn . "
Bumper crops have leave farms with a raft of grain for the mice to feast on , and with an abundance of food available they have bred at mellow than common levels . mouse can breed from around the age of six weeks , and give birth to bedding of up to 10 pups every 19 to 21 days .
A soft and moist summer gave mouse ideal conditions for the mouse to breed , which continued through the fall , Australia ’s National Science Agency the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO)says in a pressing departure . " There is no respite in pup production . "
The infestation have get so bad that the deputy choice minister ( of a country that incorporate hundreds of deadly spiders and other horror animals)declaredthis week that " the only secure mouse is a dead computer mouse " , while the New South Wales government purchase 5,000 liter of mice poison .
With the creature look for out shelter as winter approaches , CSIRO have notify mass in urban region to be on the look out for mice , too .
" People in urban areas should piece up holes in their home , cracks in the wall , roof spaces and where pipes number through the wall . Pack holes with sword woollen or place invader . Mice can squeeze into very small space , but they wo n’t corrode through brand wool . Put seal on doors , " they wrote , add pet owners should clean up left - over nutrient that might attract them .
“ As they run out of food and cannibalise each other they do decline but in other places they are just absolutely exploding and its not thousands its jillion , " Martintold BBC Radio 4 ’s The Today Program .
“ In my class farm we put out two billion come-on principally by aircraft , and we are only restrained sized farmers and they are all gone , the bait have all been all taken . "
