Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - Mice seeking shelter in the cold Dutch winter found a short-lived home inside four Dutch air force F-16 fighter jets by building nests with wiring they had gnawed loose.
"We are based next to a large nature reserve with potatoe fields and as it's winter, mice seek warm places to shelter," said Kirsten Regnery, an air force spokeswoman at the Leeuwarden F-16 base in the north of the country.
The mice nests and damaged cables were found recently in F-16s that were awaiting a major maintenance overhaul. Regnery said the pest control division of the army was called in to make the jet hangars "mice unfriendly" with traps and poison.
There were no big material or financial damages. The planes have been serviced, have new wiring and are now airborne again.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article1295.html
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Here in Pakistan birds try to fly into the wind inlets & in US Taxes Air Fields r some times visited by rattle snakes....what can be done??
"We are based next to a large nature reserve with potatoe fields and as it's winter, mice seek warm places to shelter," said Kirsten Regnery, an air force spokeswoman at the Leeuwarden F-16 base in the north of the country.
The mice nests and damaged cables were found recently in F-16s that were awaiting a major maintenance overhaul. Regnery said the pest control division of the army was called in to make the jet hangars "mice unfriendly" with traps and poison.
There were no big material or financial damages. The planes have been serviced, have new wiring and are now airborne again.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article1295.html
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Here in Pakistan birds try to fly into the wind inlets & in US Taxes Air Fields r some times visited by rattle snakes....what can be done??