🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agoAnon starts to believeimagemessage-square127linkfedilinkarrow-up1831arrow-down12
arrow-up1829arrow-down1imageAnon starts to believe🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agomessage-square127linkfedilink
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down2·6 days 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-up20·6 days 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-up20·6 days agoTurns out they will eat ticks in a study that only fed them ticks.
minus-squareTʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 days 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-up10·6 days 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-squareDahGangalang@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days 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 :(
Don’t want to say where I’m at, but we don’t really have possums in my area :/
Also chicken right?