Opossums are frequent visitors to my backyard. Perhaps they visit because they have good memories and can find food and remember where it is day after day. I guess that is why they visit everyday.

Opossums kill 95% of the ticks they encounter and a single opossum eats about 5000 ticks per year.

Opossums are omnivores eating a variety of foods including carrion, slugs, snails, cockroaches, insects, birds, small rodents, snakes, reptiles, amphibians, earthworms, seeds, nuts, plants, fruit, etc.

Opossums can climb tress and often nests in holes in trees or dens made by other animals.

Newborn opossums are as tiny as honeybees when born. Many do not survive but the ones that do climb into their mother’s pouch to continue to grow.

Opossums are the only marsupials found in the United States and Canada.