New South Wales has been overrun by tens of millions of rampaging rodents stretching 1,000km from Brisbane to Melbourne.
The explosion of mice has caused immense damage to the country's eastern coast, decimating crops and chomping their way through food storage units.
The morning ritual for farmer Kodi Brady for the last several months has been cleaning up mice.
Before he heads off to work, Brady scoops up hundreds of dead mice, as the biggest plague of the rodents in decades sweeps across the Australian state of New South Wales.
The livestock farmer has had to drown rodents in buckets, or set poison, as the biggest plague of the rodents in decades continues its sweep across the Australian state of New South Wales.
The region has been battling a mice plague for several months now, after heavy rains relieved the country's worst drought in 50 years.
The wet weather helped produce the country's largest ever grain crop - providing ample food to mice.
In May, New South Wales state offered farmers free bait to deal with the problem
but the size of the outbreak has led to calls on the government to allow the use of bromadiolone -- a toxic poison currently banned in Australia.
But now experts have warned that the huge influx of mice will attract an army of snakes to the area.
"After the mice, the snakes will follow," Gerard Dallow, from Micropest in Sydney, told Nine.
He said the infestation of mice was common for South Australia, but not for New South Wales.
"The mice aren't likely to leave the food sources and head into the city."
Luckily for farmers, who have seen their crops destroyed by the blighters, snakes won't cause more damage.
But the serpents could still pose a threat to humans as around 100 snake species in Australia are venomous.
The mice have invaded homes, schools and hospitals as they thrive after heavy rain and hot and dry spells led to a bumper harvest in Australia.
And the vice president of the New South Wales Farmers’ Association said the desperate rodents have now started eating each other when they run out of food.
"When they run out of food, when they run out of seeds to eat they start cannibalising, they start eating each other," Martin told ITV News.
"They’re pretty disgusting animals and of course they’ve taken over a lot of our homes, our sheds, our vehicles, our tractors, we’ve had machinery burn.
"We had a house burn just north of us last night that was apparently due to mice.
"Look, even in this house here they ate the hose at the back of the dishwasher, so when the dishwasher ran it flooded the kitchen."
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