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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 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.