"Flagging" with white pants caught 100 ticks. Putting dry ice in the same place brought out 600 more.

"Flagging" with white pants caught 100 ticks. Putting dry ice in the same place brought out 600 more. The ticks are going after the CO2 in the dry ice.

Alabama Lyme Disease

Interesting experiment...

"Ready for some weird science? Ticks are attracted to dry ice because as it melts it releases carbon dioxide (CO2), which is what mammals (sources of blood meals for ticks) exhale."

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