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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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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.

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- TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Possums don’t actually eat ticks (but we should still be pro-possum for other environmental reasons)
  
  …wildlifeillinois.org/…/debunking-the-myth-opossu…
  
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  - onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Turns out they will eat ticks in a study that only fed them ticks.
    
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    TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    And they don’t even have proof that they ate those ticks- odds are the ticks were all embedded in their skin lol
    
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- 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 :(
  
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- kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Also chicken right?
  
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- 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 :/
  
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Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The rabbit in my yard had a pretty big tick on it. I just don’t walk where the tall plants are.

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