Invading moths blanket outback Qld town

The outback Queensland town of Winton has been blanketed by swarms of moths after heavy rain in the region.

A video posted to Facebook on Wednesday shows thousands of the tiny winged creatures filling the gutters of a car park and clinging to the walls of the Winton Hotel.

Max Jurd, a barman at the pub, said the town is often overrun by insects when they breed after rainfall.

However, he'd never seen anything this extreme.

"It's been going for three days," he told AAP.

"I was raking them up in garbage bags and taking them to the dump.

"The best way to avoid them is just to turn off all your lights at night, but you still hear them banging into the walls and roof, it honestly sounds like rain."

Winton, with a population of fewer than 1000, is about 900km inland from the Queensland coast.