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DID YOU KNOW THAT OPOSSUMS EAT VIRTUALLY ALL THE TICKS IN YOUR YARD?
WideOpenSpaces ^ | February 3, 2020 | Craig Raleigh

Posted on 06/18/2020 3:47:56 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

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To: CheshireTheCat

Anyone know what eats dead japanese beetles.

Last year some varmint would come and scarf them down. It was something that could jump.


21 posted on 06/18/2020 4:10:53 PM PDT by RummyChick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYXYfdsaHxg)
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To: SamAdams76

Dragon flies do eat mosquitoes


22 posted on 06/18/2020 4:12:00 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: 2banana
Chickens too

Wow! Didn't know that possums eat chickens.

23 posted on 06/18/2020 4:13:16 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I wish they ate Armadillos. I hate those beasts. Always causing damage.


24 posted on 06/18/2020 4:13:27 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: CheshireTheCat

So, there was a stray female cat in heat that was wandering around my house. I have a female cat and a male who has been fixed, so nobody that could give her what she wanted. One night, I looked out on my porch and there were: 1) the female cat, 2) bachelor #1, 3) bachelor #2, 4) bachelor #3, 5) my male cat who was happy about this intrusion, and .... 6) a weird looking cat that once he started moving, I realized was an opossum. I guess he was there for the uh gang bang. Last sentence is a reference to the movie Old School. I still don’t know what he was doing there. They are definitely nocturnal. They come out a little earlier than the raccoons in my yard.


25 posted on 06/18/2020 4:14:19 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Paleoconservatives were right about literally everything.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I wish possums and raccoons ate each other.


26 posted on 06/18/2020 4:15:23 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Trailerpark Badass

If anyone is interested in trivia, female possums have two uterus’ and the male has a forked penis. Gestation period is nine days - a female possum can have two litters going at the same time. When the little’uns are born, a litter could fit into a tablespoon so they stay in the pouch until they are strong enough to ride on mamma’s back. Don’t ask me why I remembered this.....when I was a child, copies of Missour Conservationist were in all classrooms.


27 posted on 06/18/2020 4:19:12 PM PDT by Ben Hecks (Don't Google it - Duck it!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

We need to find something that eats democrats.


28 posted on 06/18/2020 4:20:11 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: kaehurowing

“Can we let a few hundred roam in D.C. to deal with the bloodsuckers there?”

you’re gonna need some bigger possums ...


29 posted on 06/18/2020 4:20:17 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: yarddog

I’ve eaten every kind of animal in the woods around where i was brought up. Squirrel, woodchuck, coon, bear,muskrats, beaver, deer etc. but never a possum. Reason: I went to my Gramma’s house once to get her prescription and saw two possums doing it on the road. I got the script and on my way out, I saw where somebody had run over and killed (what I figure was the female from the bottom). I got the pills and on my way back to Gramma’s, There was the male feasting on the dead female! Even I got sickened.


30 posted on 06/18/2020 4:20:39 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Let’s grow a giant one and let it eat rioters.


31 posted on 06/18/2020 4:21:11 PM PDT by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: entropy12

Could be armadillo.


32 posted on 06/18/2020 4:22:26 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: SamAdams76

http://www.mosquitoworld.net/mosquito-control/natural/


33 posted on 06/18/2020 4:22:44 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

they also hiss at you wife and scare the crap out of her.


34 posted on 06/18/2020 4:29:15 PM PDT by MisterArtery
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To: CheshireTheCat

You can say hi, but it still will hiss at you.

I have grub dig holes in my yard I assume are from a possum.

Good to know about the ticks.


35 posted on 06/18/2020 4:29:53 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: CheshireTheCat

You can say hi, but it still will hiss at you.

I have grub dig holes in my yard I assume are from a possum.

Good to know about the ticks.


36 posted on 06/18/2020 4:29:53 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: Bonemaker

Democrats taste too Schitty


37 posted on 06/18/2020 4:30:22 PM PDT by digger48
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To: CheshireTheCat

Looks to me like a pet worth keeping around, despite its rat like appearance.


38 posted on 06/18/2020 4:31:16 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: Trailerpark Badass

They need some mild trauma to initiate the playing ‘’possum neural response. Otherwise they just show you their teeth...the most of any North American mammal, and pretty impressive.


39 posted on 06/18/2020 4:31:20 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Safetgiver
I know a person who raises cattle. She found one dead in the field. When the vet came out and started looking the cow over, a possum crawled out of its rectum. It was eating that cow from the inside out! One of nature's little vacuum cleaners.😵
40 posted on 06/18/2020 4:31:22 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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