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Benji Jones: In the summer of 2019, a bull was found dead on a farm in North Carolina. Dead by exsanguination. Which means it was drained of blood. The culprit wasn't real-life vampires, but something just as frightening: an army of more than 1,000 Asian longhorned ticks. But here's the thing. As scary as that sounds, Asian longhorns are just one of about 90 tick species found in the US. All of them suck blood, all of them can carry disease, and all of them are incredibly difficult to kill. The Asian longhorned tick is truly a villainous pest. Not only is it an invasive species, but it can also clone itself over and over again. Since it was first reported in 2017, it's crawled its way to at least 12 other states. Including where we are here, New York. Danielle Tufts: OK, so this is an adult. This looks like the Asian longhorned tick to me. Jones: So this the infamous Asian longhorn tick? Tufts: Yep. Jones: That's Danielle Tufts, a disease ecologist at Columbia University. She's studying ticks in Staten Island to figure out what diseases they carry. But first, she has to collect them. Tufts: So, this is what we call a drag cloth, and it's a meter by meter, so a meter squared. And basically what we would do is we just walk at a nice, even, slow pace and drag this right behind us. And we'll stop every about 20 meters or so, and we'll flip the cloth over, and we'll look for whatever ticks are on the backside. Jones: Contrary to what many people believe, ticks don't actively seek you out. Tufts: Ah, so here's a tick right here. Jones: Tick spotted! So many ticks in this forest. Tufts: Oh, yeah. This is a very ticky forest. Jones: And they're definitely not jumping on you from trees. In fact, ticks can't even jump. They're actually more like opportunists who take what they can get. Tufts: Ticks are what we call sit-and-wait predators, where they climb up to the top of the blades of grass and they put their arms out. And at the top of their arms they have little sticky pads. And those pads will get attracted to this. And this is how they get stuck on your pants or on other animals in the wild as well. Jones: And what do you call the, like, when they stick their hands up like this? Tufts: We call that questing or host-seeking. Jones: Yeah, ticks are literally on a quest for blood! And they've mastered the art of extracting it, all without getting caught. After a tick crawls onto you, it sneaks into a concealed crevice, like your armpit. And after that, it uses two horrifying hooklike structures to tear into your flesh and keep from falling off. Then, they insert what is basically a straw covered in spikes, like a piece of barbed wire, which makes them even harder to remove. And this...