🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 5 months agoAnon starts to believesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square130linkfedilinkarrow-up1851arrow-down12
arrow-up1849arrow-down1imageAnon starts to believesh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 5 months agomessage-square130linkfedilink
minus-squareTʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up21·5 months 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-up20·5 months agoTurns out they will eat ticks in a study that only fed them ticks.
minus-squareTʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 months agoAnd they don’t even have proof that they ate those ticks- odds are the ticks were all embedded in their skin lol
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