🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 year agoAnon starts to believesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square130linkfedilinkarrow-up1855arrow-down12
arrow-up1853arrow-down1imageAnon starts to believesh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 year agomessage-square130linkfedilink
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down2·1 year agoThat shouldn’t make you less pro-bunny. It should make you more pro-possum. It’s an ecosystem. We threw it out of wack, but there are things that help keep tick populations down.
minus-squareTʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoPossums don’t actually eat ticks (but we should still be pro-possum for other environmental reasons) https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/debunking-the-myth-opossums-dont-eat-ticks
minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 year agoTurns out they will eat ticks in a study that only fed them ticks.
minus-squareTʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoAnd they don’t even have proof that they ate those ticks- odds are the ticks were all embedded in their skin lol
minus-squarefireweed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoUnfortunately the thing about opossums, as well as chickens and guinea fowl, being tick control may not be empirically supported. https://extension.psu.edu/do-chickens-guinea-fowl-or-opossums-control-ticks I would love to be proven wrong if anyone else has other info :(
minus-squarekameecoding@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoAlso chicken right?
minus-squareDahGangalang@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoDon’t want to say where I’m at, but we don’t really have possums in my area :/
That shouldn’t make you less pro-bunny. It should make you more pro-possum. It’s an ecosystem. We threw it out of wack, but there are things that help keep tick populations down.
Possums don’t actually eat ticks (but we should still be pro-possum for other environmental reasons)
https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/debunking-the-myth-opossums-dont-eat-ticks
Turns out they will eat ticks in a study that only fed them ticks.
And they don’t even have proof that they ate those ticks- odds are the ticks were all embedded in their skin lol
Unfortunately the thing about opossums, as well as chickens and guinea fowl, being tick control may not be empirically supported.
https://extension.psu.edu/do-chickens-guinea-fowl-or-opossums-control-ticks
I would love to be proven wrong if anyone else has other info :(
Also chicken right?
Don’t want to say where I’m at, but we don’t really have possums in my area :/