Possums eat thousands of ticks
I saw several posts about people having tick trouble and thought I'd pass this along. My son who caught Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite told me that possums eat a lot of ticks. I have some animus toward possums because they eat a lot of my grapes, so I didn't want to believe him. But I asked a search engine about it and sure enough a lot of authorities say they do. Now I'm putting the household garbage in a good spot to attract possums and cut down on ticks around the house and barnyard.
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Problem is there are millions of ticks! Don
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That's why we have a possum festival in our town, but this year, less possums, more ticks. A possum will eat a pound of ticks but it takes 50,000 ticks to make a pound.
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...I knew they were nasty for a reason...see 'em all the time around here...usually raiding garbage...they sure have a mouthful of pointy teeth...armadillos are a lot friendlier...
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Ticks? What the heck are ticks? Is that like when my Rover needs a quart of oil? Possums? Ticks? Iām all cornfused.
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You don't have ticks because the black flies ate themš
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They say Guinea fowl are great tick eaters as long as you can put up with their melodious songs.
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pingjockey: 31516815096219/comments/31516779779355
You don't have ticks because the black flies ate themš
If the White Socks mosquitos didn't get 'em first!
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Oh don't get me started on the NoSeeUms and White Socks. Or the Sabre Tooth Mosquitos.
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@...: https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/1900405/possums-eat-thousands-of-ticks
I saw several posts about people having tick trouble and thought I'd pass this along. My son who caught Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite told me that possums eat a lot of ticks. I have some animus toward possums because they eat a lot of my grapes, so I didn't want to believe him. But I asked a search engine about it and sure enough a lot of authorities say they do. Now I'm putting the household garbage in a good spot to attract possums and cut down on ticks around the house and barnyard.
so they will eat garbage instead of ticks.
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If Possums dined on ticks they would get too fat to walk in my neck of the woods.
My Guinea fowl got rocky mountain spotted tick fever and died.
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