A bird invasion, predicted to be three times worse than last year, has wreaked havoc in local fruit orchards.
Ms Sarah Kuchar has been left with just a handful of edible apples after a flock of about 1,500 lorikeets tore through her Stockwell property.
Despite ramping up control efforts with a permitted decimation cull, the orchard was stripped almost bare within a week.
The orchard produces about...
