Bring 2 1/4 cups water to a boil and add the rice and 1 teaspoon of the salt. Return to a boil, cover, and simmer for 30 to 40 minutes, until the rice is tender and all the water is absorbed. Transfer the rice to a bowl.
Opossums stop the spread of Lyme disease because they kill up to 4,000 ticks a week. Claims about possums and ticks are mostly true â but the amount of ticks one possum kills in a week has been skewed.
The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginianus, Fig. 1) is North America's only marsupial, a primitive mammal that bears its young only partially developed. When baby opossums are born, they are so small that twenty can be held in a teaspoon. Opossums have a high mortality rate at all ages; it is estimated that only 10 percent of weaned opossums survive more than one year. 2  Dogs, coyotes, foxes, raccoons, bobcats, eagles, hawks and owls prey on them, especially the young.