Terrifying stuff.
“And if they’re the opposite polarity, they’ll be attracted to each other. And if they’re the same polarity, they’ll be repelled from each other,” England says, It’s the same logic behind the hair/balloon experiment you probably did in school; and yes, it works for ticks too.
The experiment involved researchers creating friction by rubbing a dried rabbit foot on a sheet of acrylic. This created those opposite positive-negative charges we just spoke about – and they were holding ticks in forceps between the two surfaces, sort of like a grimmer version of horses in racecourse stalls.
Once the forceps were released, the Lyme-spreading castor bean tick nymphs the team had caught “flew” towards one surface or another. In fact, the study showed that because ticks are so tiny, their personal negative or positive charge might be overwhelmed by broader electrical currents.“In fact, another recent study found evidence that
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