They also eat all venomous snakes. They are immune to the venom.
Not only do they eat ticks but other animals, such as deer, will allow possums to clean them of ticks.
Down here in SE Texas we have lots of ticks, probably because we have so many deer. I pick them off daily.
4 acre pond 32 ft deep within East Texas (Livingston) timber ranch. Filled (to the top of an almost finished dam) by Hurricane Harvey 9/17. Stocked with FHM, CNBG, RES 10/17. Added 35lbs RSC 3/18. 400 N LMB fingerlings 6/18
| 
