#  Ticks on an eel? 

 





Kaylin's recent publication draws attention to natural history museum collections



 

December 04, 2025

 

 

     ![Kaylin Chong in front of shelves of museum specimens in jars](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/kaylin-chong.jpg?h=f6d1b641&itok=ri8OjoAC) 

 



 

From *Entomology Today*: "An electric eel donated to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in 1873 had two ticks embedded in its skin, making it the first known instance of ticks parasitizing a fish. But it was never documented until now, more than 150 years later, when Kaylin Chong, a doctoral student at the museum, chanced upon the specimen, identified the ticks, and reported the case in the *Journal of Medical Entomology*."

[Read the interview here](https://entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/ticks-eel-museum-collection-specimen-first/) and learn more about [Kaylin's article here](https://farrell.oeb.harvard.edu/publication/eclectic-encounter-ticks-feeding-electric-eel-and-untapped-potential-natural-history-0)!



 

 

 



 

 

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