ANIMALS - Researchers use microscope equipped camera to learn how ticks pierce and adhere to skin (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany has succeeded in filming ticks as they pierce the skin of a mouse ear, attach themselves and then start sucking blood. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the team describes how they filmed the ticks and what they learned in analyzing the video they created ...

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-microscope-equipped-camera-pierce-adhere.