Opossums have come to be seen as something of a savior species when it comes to eradicating ticks. From websites to publications to social media, the idea that opossums help save humans from ...

Hopefully these past two weeks’ columns won’t upset any possum fan clubs out there as my intent isn’t to write a smear campaign, but rather to simply separate fact from fallacy regarding our marsupial ...

Whenever people say they don’t like opossums or they want to get rid of them, what they’re unknowingly saying is that they’d rather have more ticks around. An opossum’s abundant consumption of ticks ...

"Where'd you get him?" "Out in the woods." "What'll you take for him?" "I don't know. I don't want to sell him." —Tom and Huck, in Tom Sawyer Ticks were evidently so rare in Samuel Clemens’ Hannibal ...