DID YOU KNOW THAT OPOSSUMS EAT VIRTUALLY ALL THE TICKS IN YOUR YARD?
You go, 'possum!
"I had no suspicion they'd be such efficient tick-killing animals," said Richard Ostfeld, of the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.
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Ostfeld said that one opossum can kill and eat some 5,000 ticks in a single season.
You go, 'possum!