🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext@sh.itjust.works • 2 months agoAnon starts to believesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up1847arrow-down12
arrow-up1845arrow-down1imageAnon starts to believesh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext@sh.itjust.works • 2 months agomessage-square125fedilink
minus-squareTʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾linkfedilink21•2 months 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-square@onslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilink20•2 months agoTurns out they will eat ticks in a study that only fed them ticks.
minus-squareTʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾linkfedilink10•2 months agoAnd they don’t even have proof that they ate those ticks- odds are the ticks were all embedded in their skin lol
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