Static electricity might help ticks zoom through the air to grab onto people and animals, according to a new published study.
NEW YORK — Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows.
Ticks are “ambush predators,” explained Stephen Rich, a public health entomologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “They can now actually end up latching onto hosts that don’t make direct contact with them," he said.
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