Bull’s-eye! Static electricity pulls worm through air to its insect victim

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​ Static electricity may be key to helping a tiny roundworm latch onto its insect hosts. Like a heat-seeking missile, the parasite zooms up to 10 millimeters in the air—20 times its own body length—before getting yanked toward its target by nothing more than the electrostatic charge of its host.

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