Local Chinese people have killed more than 2.25 million mice, making a pile equivalent to 90 tonnes of rodents.
An estimated 2 billion field mice are chomping their way hungrily through crops in 22 counties around the Dongting Lake in central China’s Hunan province after their homes on islands in the lake were flooded.
The massive invasion of field mice began on June 23 when the Yangtze river flooded, raising the water level in Dongting Lake and submerging mouse holes on islands in the lake.