Posted on 05/31/2021 11:34:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Southeastern Australia has been battling mouse plague for months, following a combination of heavy rain, cooler temperatures, and a high crop yield.
Experts now worry the influx of mice could just be just the beginning of problems for the region, with worries a snake plague is on the way.
Gerard Dallow from a Sydney-based organization called Micropest told nine.com.au that "snakes are likely to follow" the rodents, potentially leading to a spike in their population numbers.
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So there IS a silver lining to everything!
:)
Some potent snakes Diwn Under.
if them ice are cannibals, wouldn’t it be a self limiting problem then?
Looks like they are expanding the definition of plague.
Snakes don’t come in and pee on your Vegemite sandwich.
That’s one of the reasons Thais don’t kill snakes (also because they are Buddhist). A king cobra can clear out several rai of land of mice and rats in a relatively short time.
At least they didn’t call it a pandemic.
It isn’t Australia if the land isn’t trying to kill you.
I should add that the main diet of king cobras are other snakes, including lesser cobras. The mice and rats attract snakes which attracts king cobras. Once the king cobra clears out the other snakes the only other prey left are mice and rats. Once these are depleted the king cobra moves on.
My fiance once had a nine foot king cobra come up out of her toilet from the septic system. Trust me, you look very carefully and then don’t linger taking your morning constitutional.
I got your snake plague right here.
Funny, but we had a big rat do the
same thing. The wife called the
exterminators. When they showed
up, they wanted to know where the
mouse was.
My wife set a heavy flower pot on
the closed toilet seat to keep
the rodent contained.
The rat was pushing hard to get
out, and was lifting the seat an
inch or so, every so often.
One of the exterminators screamed
when they removed the flower pot,
and opened the lid.
The one standing behind had the
presence of mind to shut the
bathroom door (upon seeing the
“mouse” leap out of the toilet).
No, they don’t. Just hope there isn’t a boom and a bunch of them starve.
KENT: Our top story, the population of parasitic tree lizards has exploded, and local citizens couldn’t be happier! It seems the rapacious reptiles have developed a taste for the common pigeon, also known as the ‘feathered rat’, or the ‘gutter bird’. For the first time, citizens need not fear harassment by flocks of chattering disease-bags.
...
LISA: But isn’t that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we’re overrun by lizards?
SKINNER: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They’ll wipe out the lizards.
LISA: But aren’t the snakes even worse?
SKINNER: Yes, but we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
LISA: But then we’re stuck with gorillas!
SKINNER: No, that’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
COVID, MICE, SNAKES???
End Times?
The snakes around my place must all be Democrats.... I still have mice... the snakes are too lazy to catch them
Hawaii has no snakes because of the population of mongooses brought there to eat the snakes.
I don’t think that the population of snakes is going to spike that much.
The reproduction rate of snakes is not that high.
Yes there will be growth but not to the point that you will have the ground covered with snakes.
I also don’t see the snakes being a solution to the mouse problem.
Snakes are cold blooded animals with a low metabolism. They don’t eat every day.
Predator populations take time to rise to the supply of prey.
I don’t know what kind of raptors Australia has but owls would do a better job than snakes.
Is the plaque of the coneys even over with yet! Sheesh, rats, mice, snakes, coneys... Australia even has a camel problem.
“Thais don’t kill snakes (also because they are Buddhist)”
Thai’s may not kill snakes, but the housekeepers next door used to come over and get me all the time to come kill snakes over in their compound. I lived there for like 6 years and snakes were on everything. Mostly rat snakes but I did kill a cobra and a krate. I was just a kid with a H&R .410 breakopen single.
Catfishing in the klongs was phenomenal.
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