In addition to feasting on carcasses and waste, opossums will catch and eat cockroaches, mice and rats on their nightly prowls. Their appetite for slugs, snails, toads and even snakes helps to ...

Opossums don't generally attack animals bigger than a rat. And while it's possible for ... from insects to snails and slugs. They'll also eat small rodents, frogs, birds, fruit and berries ...