New research from Simon Fraser University reveals ants could be a solution to prevent tick bites.
In a media release Monday, the university said researchers found that ticks would avoid ants and the area they were in. Even once the ants would leave the area, ticks would still not go to where the ants previously were.
“They could see that there were ants and basically go, ‘I’m not going to go there because there may be ants there or there may be ants there again soon,” said Claire Gooding, the lead author of the study.
The research was published recently in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
