An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S., Threatening LivestockLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.world – 164 points – 11 months agosmithsonianmag.com32Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all comments you cannot spray your way out of an infestation OK, so what other options are there?Breed opossums and unleash them upon the local areaI've heard that opossums don't actually eat that many ticks.Okay, no opposums, no snakes on this convo branch. how about a shit ton of guinea fowl?Lol I mean I'll do anything to get rid of ticks. They freak me out.That just means we need more opossums, and I fail to see the downsideThen we'll have to breed a predator to care of the opossum problem ....Okay? I got this. How do we feel about snakes?What about flamethrowers?Welcome and praise our new tick overlords with a blood offering.Popping!1 more...Most likely, find their natural predators and diseases to control the ticks.1 more...
you cannot spray your way out of an infestation OK, so what other options are there?Breed opossums and unleash them upon the local areaI've heard that opossums don't actually eat that many ticks.Okay, no opposums, no snakes on this convo branch. how about a shit ton of guinea fowl?Lol I mean I'll do anything to get rid of ticks. They freak me out.That just means we need more opossums, and I fail to see the downsideThen we'll have to breed a predator to care of the opossum problem ....Okay? I got this. How do we feel about snakes?What about flamethrowers?Welcome and praise our new tick overlords with a blood offering.Popping!1 more...Most likely, find their natural predators and diseases to control the ticks.1 more...
Breed opossums and unleash them upon the local areaI've heard that opossums don't actually eat that many ticks.Okay, no opposums, no snakes on this convo branch. how about a shit ton of guinea fowl?Lol I mean I'll do anything to get rid of ticks. They freak me out.That just means we need more opossums, and I fail to see the downsideThen we'll have to breed a predator to care of the opossum problem ....Okay? I got this. How do we feel about snakes?
I've heard that opossums don't actually eat that many ticks.Okay, no opposums, no snakes on this convo branch. how about a shit ton of guinea fowl?Lol I mean I'll do anything to get rid of ticks. They freak me out.That just means we need more opossums, and I fail to see the downside
Okay, no opposums, no snakes on this convo branch. how about a shit ton of guinea fowl?Lol I mean I'll do anything to get rid of ticks. They freak me out.
Then we'll have to breed a predator to care of the opossum problem ....Okay? I got this. How do we feel about snakes?
OK, so what other options are there?
Breed opossums and unleash them upon the local area
I've heard that opossums don't actually eat that many ticks.
Okay, no opposums, no snakes on this convo branch.
how about a shit ton of guinea fowl?
Lol I mean I'll do anything to get rid of ticks. They freak me out.
That just means we need more opossums, and I fail to see the downside
Then we'll have to breed a predator to care of the opossum problem ....
Okay? I got this. How do we feel about snakes?
What about flamethrowers?
Welcome and praise our new tick overlords with a blood offering.
Popping!
Most likely, find their natural predators and diseases to control the ticks.