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Encouraging a local opossum population, if they live in your area, would help. They eat a lot of ticks. Allegedly they eat 90% of the ticks that they encounter,
by wilsonnb 8y ago
Encouraging a local opossum population, if they live in your area, would help. They eat a lot of ticks. Allegedly they eat 90% of the ticks that they encounter, which can be up to 5000 per opossum in a season.
- nonbel 8y ago>"up to 5000 per opossum in a season" It looks like a single tick may produce 500 - 15,000 ticks per "ovipostion" (egg-laying session). LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE OVIPOSITION, EGG-SIZES AND SHAPES AND EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF DERMACENTOR VA RIA BILlS, RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS AND AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/cbgp/acarologia/export_pdf.php?id=2424&typefile=pdf http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/cbgp/acarologia/export_pdf.p...
- wilsonnb 8y agoWe're going to need a lot of opossums then! I'd be curious to know how long the average life span of each tick is. I wonder exactly how many opossums I would need per square foot to ensure that my yard is 99.99% tick free.