One thing about possums that has been in the news lately is that opossums can help clear your yard of ticks. Apparently when the tick lands on the opossum, the animal licks it off and eats it. Other warm blooded animals don't do that very much, so the tick when full just drops off and goes on to bite you. One possum can get rid of thousands of ticks in a season.
https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/stor ... /70221442/
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Re: Are Possums Good or Bad to Have Around?
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