We get lots of bunny visitors at my place as well, but I noticed a couple have crazy big ticks around their ears. Luckily we haven’t gotten any in the house or anything, but has def made me less “pro-bunny” lately.
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moakley@lemmy.world 1 week ago
When I got a lawn, I didn’t do anything to it. It gets mowed every two weeks, but that’s it. After a particularly nasty drought most of the grass died. A few months later, clover started popping up on its own. It’s much better than grass, and now a bunny likes to visit us.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
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.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Possums don’t actually eat ticks (but we should still be pro-possum for other environmental reasons)
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Turns out they will eat ticks in a study that only fed them ticks.
fireweed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Unfortunately the thing about opossums, as well as chickens and guinea fowl, being tick control may not be empirically supported.
…psu.edu/do-chickens-guinea-fowl-or-opossums-cont…
I would love to be proven wrong if anyone else has other info :(
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Also chicken right?
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Don’t want to say where I’m at, but we don’t really have possums in my area :/
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 week ago
kernelle@0d.gs 1 week ago
!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org
moakley@lemmy.world 1 week ago
She’s #4 all time on there! I took this better picture this week but hadn’t posted it yet because it’s “babie week” there.
scarilog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Everything about this comment brings me so much joy