this skeet forced me to look up the science and i am gutted to learn that opossums might not actually eat tickets pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34298355/
Are Virginia opossums really ecological traps for ticks? Groundtruthing laboratory observations - PubMedVirginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana) are a common synanthrope in North America, and serve as host to many species of ectoparasites. Research on captive Virginia opossums estimated that opossums ea...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov