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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Petra Stock

Mouse plague hits WA grain farmers as numbers surge in SA: ‘You literally can’t get away from them’

Mice scurry around stored grain on a farm
File photo of mice at a grain farm near Tottenham in 2021. A mouse plague is putting farmers in Western Australia on high alert. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

Grain growers are on high alert as mouse numbers in Western Australia reach plague proportions and numbers surge in South Australia.

Steve Henry, who researches mice and their impact on the grain industry at CSIRO, says more than 800 mice per hectare is considered a plague.

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