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Gangs of Tiny Worms Ride Electrical Fields to Hitchhike on Passing Bees
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A series of high-speed stills showing a C. elegans larva jumping. (Chiba et al., Cur. Bio., 2023)It could be presumed the worms were crawling the long way around, across the agar substrate, up the walls of the petri dish, and across the lid. But cameras set up to record the worms revealed a very different, unexpected behavior: the larvae were leaping the distance.
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