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How to stop a mouse plague (phys.org)

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The scenes are biblical. Tens of thousands of rodents scattering across canola fields, behind sheds, into machinery. River fish with bellies full of mice. Carcasses littering the street, the sidewalk, outside your home. In supermarkets, the inescapable stench of dead and dying mice. These are the undeniable signs of a mouse plague.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago

So some researchers figured out the mice can smell where to dig up sown grains, but if you spray a bunch of wheat germ oil then they can't find anything and give up like 70% of the time.

Also the Australian authorities on chemical sale have allowed double strength rodenticides to be sold, which sounds kind of dumb because the rodenticide should already be enough to kill mice so the only upside to double strength would be killing things that eat the mice...

Which I guess also includes the mice, but still...