Dragging for Ticks (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Dragging for Ticks

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Research assistant Rachel Katz drags for ticks in the Ozarks. The drag cloth takes advantage of the ticks' natural host-seeking behavior, called questing. Ticks climb to the top of grass stems, hold on with their back legs and extend their hooked from legs away from their bodies, ready to latch onto prey.

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Brian Allan

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