Opossums are Good for the Garden
If you let them, Opossums can help by eating snails, grubs, beetles, rats, mice and gophers that might otherwise chow down on your crops or lawn. They also eat ticks, preventing Lyme Disease. The National Wildlife Federation reported in Give Opossums a Break: a study calculated “a single opossum might kill an astonishing 4,000 ticks in a week.”
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