What can I feed an outdoor possum?

You will have to have a food source to attract opossums. Planting gardens with fruits, vegetables and flowers will attract insects, snail and slugs. Opossums eat insects, snails and slugs. Opossums are also partial to overripe, fallen fruit on the ground.

What can I feed a stray possum?

The best way to ensure your Opossum is getting the proper nutrients is to feed them a quality pellet diet like Insectivore-Fare, supplemented with lots of fresh vegetables and occasionally meat, eggs, insects, or plain low-fat yogurt as an added protein source.

What kind of human food do possums eat?

Human foods are also attractive to possums since they eat various fruits, grains, and nuts. Possums may feed on several human foods such as bread, crackers, cookies, fruits, and many other foods.

What fruits and vegetables do possums eat?

Possums are not picky eaters, and there’s very few foods they don’t eat. In terms of vegetables, they will eat anything they can get their paws on. Once they find their way in your garden, possums will eat potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, peas, beans, herbs like coriander, basil or parsley, chards, broccoli, and many more.

Can you feed possums carrots?

Possums will also eat insects, moths, grubs, snails, birds’ eggs and baby birds. Here they will eat everything from roses to rock melons, camellias to carrots, magnolias to mangoes, wisteria to wattle, and can decimate a veggie garden in no time.

Can possums eat sweet potatoes?

Well, a possum is a scavenger. They subsist on a diet of bugs, slugs, and roadkill. So having a nice juicy sweet potato for a meal is like winning the lottery.

Can possums eat banana?

Brushtail Possums are known to be tolerant of many plant toxins and will eat trees that other animals find poisonous. Possums will also eat insects, moths, grubs, snails, birds’ eggs and baby birds. Other food which we may grow for ourselves that possums love includes: Fruits: Apples, pears, grapes and bananas.

Do possums eat corn?

That said, opossums might take the occasional bite of your tomatoes or corn, and they do have an unfortunate tendency to eat out of the compost heap. Usually though they tend to seek decayed or overripe fruit.