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‘I’d never been bitten by a tick before’: why the little blood-sucking pest is getting us into a panic (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last summer I took my family on a walk through the woodlands that surround the hamlet of Ebernoe, in Sussex. My children clambered on fallen trees, my partner and I hunted for mushrooms, and all the while we were being hunted by creatures more ancient than the last dinosaurs – and so hungry they would have fed on us for days.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They eat ticks when they have no other choice. That study that sparked the "opossums will eradicate ticks" legend gave the opossums only ticks to eat.

Chickens, on the other hand, will destroy any pest population they can get to.

[–] tophneal 2 points 7 months ago

I knew they ate more than just ticks, but this good info to know!