the CSIRO bought in an African dung beetle many years ago and the maintenance cost for WA to run this programme was about $300,000 per year. The country fly population almost went to zero.
When Alan Carpenter became Premier he canned the programme - all to save the same amount of money that we pay a senior public servant.
Our current Premier re-introduced it last year, with an initial start-up cost of about $500K, but this will drop down - but we wont see a big drop in farm flies (even in Perth where they are very common) for about 3-4 years as the beetle population builds up in the country.
We're here amoungst the flies they are that thick at the moment that "happy hour" seems to have been cancelled in most camps until further notice. The misus thought she would outsmart the flies a bought a hat with pics of flies printed all over it thinking the real ones would see the fake ones and decide it would be too overcrowded to land there..... it didn't work!.
If you're coming this way come armed with a good insect net to cover your face, cause these little buggers are attracted to the Aeroguard!.
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