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New study suggests that ticks (blood-sucking fiends) utilize static electricity to travel to their host. (www.pbs.org)
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Original study: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00772-8

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[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can believe this, the only time I've seen a tick on a human was after my gf had been sat in the garden, in long grass in a synthetic dressing gown.

I remember the visceral horror and confusion of me climbing into bed, patting her butt and feeling what felt like a huge mole on her ass that I had never seen before, then seeing this odd grey lump on her ass.

We're now rather attentive at performing tick checks on each other.

[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ticks were never an issue where I live until a few yrs ago, and then when I started seeing comments about people needing to check their cracks on reddit, I thought it was a joke. Big surprise to me when my partner said we needed to check ALL our creases.

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I pretty much thought they were an American/continental Europe/Asia thing, I hadn't really heard of them being a risk in the UK prior to seeing it on my GF. I only thought they were a risk in areas with high deer populations, which I don't exactly have in my back garden.