>>509062542opossums eat a lot of ticks bro I don't know what you're talking about.
a single opossums eats about 95% of the reachable ticks on its own body and they have been documented to eat around 5k a season.
it is quantifiable with direct citation of 98% correlation that areas with high opossum populations have less ticks.
like bro if you're going to shitpost, fucking make it believable.
between opossums and raccoons you could of made a choice on raccoons that THEY do not do much for the tick population, because they only eat a few hundred a year.
opossums are quite literally ticks number one predator besides birds (also on the decline) and specific frogs (only specific species, also on the decline).
No it's not just deer populations, there is no correlation since I live in a state that drastically culls back deer to an absolute number every single year to the point we know the exact number of deer in a given county.
Ticks continue to rise because they simply have few natural predators.
Want to get rid of ticks?
kill all cats, all cats, period.
a single cat kills 34 birds a year on average.
which means stray cats potentially kill hundreds to thousands of birds FOR FUCKING FUN to reach that average.
Cats also kill frogs.
Cats also compete with opossums for food.
Fuck cats and fuck cat owners, jewish parasite scheme.
>>509062848i've got a a regular brood (multi generational) opossum family that lives in the storm drains near my property.
I'm also noticing complete extinction of fox population lately, not related.
but for 30 years we had female foxes in our region (female foxes develop territory, male foxes wander around) and within last five years not one single orange or gray tail. where 20 years ago you couldn't drive a single night without seeing a quick flash of orange from it diving into a bush.
it's bioterrorism simply put.
We are letting jeets and chinks and jews and everyone else poison the predator populations.