I’ve been out on hikes in wooded areas along the North Shore and elsewhere in Minnesota and Wisconsin with people who have posed an interesting question: Can ticks land on you out of a tree?
As I thought about it, my initial thought was that they probably aren’t jumping out of trees on purpose, but maybe they are falling out of trees from time to time. As I thought about it more, I really got intrigued. Especially after reading that ticks can apparently fly short distances, I decided to do some research.
I landed on some information from the folks at Kansas State University, who did some tick mythbusting in a post to their website a few years back.
In their post, they explained that a lot of people believe that ticks can end up landing on people out of trees, but the idea of ticks raining out of trees is more of a bad dream and less in the realm of reality.
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When it comes to the idea of jumping out of trees onto people, they explain that ticks can’t jump or leap.
