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Do they? #6647674
10/24/19 12:07 PM
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Do Opossum eat ticks? That is the big subject now. Don't kill possums because they eat ticks.


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Re: Do they? [Re: Getting There] #6647677
10/24/19 12:15 PM
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Been going around for years. One study supports those numbers. Doesn't address the negatives of the possum.

Statistical cherry picking at its finest.

Re: Do they? [Re: Getting There] #6647685
10/24/19 12:27 PM
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They eat everything else! Why not ticks???? laugh


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Re: Do they? [Re: Getting There] #6647722
10/24/19 01:26 PM
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Maybe that's where that green gunk comes from!


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Re: Do they? [Re: Getting There] #6647728
10/24/19 01:35 PM
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The bigger question; Does anybody but Granny eat 'possum grits?


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Re: Do they? [Re: Getting There] #6647739
10/24/19 01:44 PM
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Opossums are not actively seeking out and eating ticks. Opossums are just more likely to eat ticks that bite them than many other mammals. Opossums eat the ticks as they find them, while grooming themselves.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opossums-kill-ticks-inhibit-the-spread-of-lyme-disease/

Opossums carry lots of disease and parasites, even with their relatively low body temperature. I give opossums to a professor at Wilmington College in Ohio, Elliott Zieman, who is studying the diseases and parasites opossums carry in Ohio. Elliott has found Bubonic Plague in Ohio opossums. Elliott did a disease and parasite study on Ohio bobcats too.

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Re: Do they? [Re: Getting There] #6647744
10/24/19 01:53 PM
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Went to high school with a kid that almost died from something he got from skinning possum. I forget what he contracted, but he was out for almost the whole year.

As for eating ticks, it wouldn't surprise me, they eat about anything.

Re: Do they? [Re: hippie] #6648152
10/24/19 10:48 PM
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If they do they have to do most of it on the carcasses as they are too slow to catch most animals that have ticks on them while alive and their eye sight is too poor to find them in the grass. We have more ticks this far south in WI now then we ever had and the early season coon trappers are reaping a lot of grinners so I am saying sure they do as would almost any meat eating predator but not enough to make a difference.

Bryce

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