Just FYI, I got a lot of flak for mentioning this fact in opossum communities on social media sites. No one wants to believe that they aren’t these amazing tick-eating heroes.

I say they are still heroes and prevent a lot of disease and nastiness! They just don’t eat ticks.

they don’t really live in the same environments, so concluding the the opossums ate them all was lazy

Uh yeah they absolutely live in some of the same environments, what are you talking about? They both live in the Midwest US for sure.

well it’s definitely situational because in Washington State they don’t