If a dog rolled around on a carpet and gets staticky and a flea jumps on it will the flea get electrocuted?

Maybe... try it out if you can! I would like to see what happens.

It would probably not, although such an experiment would be interesting.

Electrostatic electricity has a big potential - thousands volts - but small power when it gets discharged, that meaning the potential will subsides momentarily to null volts with the current caused very negligeble. This current will make little harm to the flea which, besides. consist of very resistive substanse.

The current might knock over the insect, but won't kill it, I believe.

There would be no effect on the flea because it is not in contact with a ground source at the same time it comes into contact with the dog, so there would be no discharge. The same reason birds can sit on overhead High Voltage train wires.

Current does not flow through a body unless it finds a way to drain itself. In this case the ground is not available so the current wont flow through the flea.

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