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Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets - CtrlF.XYZ

Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets

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Millimetre-long worms usage almighty muscles to leap onto their bee oregon alert hosts to feed. But their adept leaping whitethorn beryllium helped by an electrical attraction that pulls them to their targets mid-air

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

15 March 2023

Tiny parasitic worms whitethorn beryllium exceptionally bully astatine jumping onto their prey due to the fact that they are electrically attracted to them.

Roundworms (Steinernema carpocapsae) that connect to insects similar bees oregon effect flies to provender connected them are among nature’s astir powerful jumpers contempt being lone a millimetre long. They motorboat into the air, past rotation successful a bid of flips until they onshore connected insects headfirst. Researchers person antecedently studied however the operation of the worms’ muscles helps them leap truthful well, but Víctor Ortega …

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