Tick?

Dont think so. Looks like a shield bug to me, they are plant eaters.

I say no as well.

It can live then. Thanks 🙂

Another not a tick from me.

Ferdinand says thanks for the help 🙂

No, I have one pickling in some surgical spirit right now, I’ll try and take a picture.

Ferdinand is cool is he pure whippet?

He is. 14 weeks old.

Ticks have eight legs, they are spider relatives not insects. No idea on size, but in the UK ticks are <3mm across even when fully fed

I like Ferdinand!

less than 3mm? HA! bollocks.

This fella getting on for 1cm. Mind you my mighty hound is probably very tasty and moreish.

less than 3mm would be unfed.

he has been collecting and feeding up some revoltingly massive ticks this year though.

There two types of tick, this is one, the other is blue, hilarious, and played by Peter Serofinowich{no way is that spelt right}

All depends what stage the tick is in. In the early stages they are tiny and hard to spot.

Top ID tip – insects have six legs; ticks eight.
(Awaits octopus and spider comments)

**** ticks and all of their kind. That is all

Hi Ferdinand!

Some pics:

UK Tick images

In the early stages they are tiny and hard to spot.

I really hope that’s a finger. 😯

All depends what stage the tick is in. In the early stages they are tiny and hard to spot.

That’s quite interesting, they don’t look much the ones we get, they are tiny!

Here’s angus’ latest aquisition on a 10p coin.

Thanks angus… in fariness, this it at the top of the scale, though it has shrunk slightly with the pickling. Almost too big for the big tick removal tool.

OP, get a tick removal tool, its only a matter of time – you and ferdinand with appreciate it when it happens.

**** ticks and all of their kind. That is all

^this + a million!

Oh, I have a microscope at work which is ideal for taking pictures of the beasts.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/30189432@N00/27926121924/in/dateposted-public/

OP, get a tick removal tool, its only a matter of time – you and ferdinand with appreciate it when it happens

What type is best? The tweezeer type or the credit card type?

Yup Shiled beatle there’s loads out at the minute.

Ticks are tiny those posting bigger ones, they all well fed so appear much bigger.

OP, that’s a bug & not a tick so you can untick it from your ticklist.

BUT!. As I’ve asked before with no positive answers, do ticks have any use to the continuation of life on this planet? I mean, are they even anywhere in the food chain?

EDIT, I’ve just realised they are in the food chain cos they feed on animals, Duurr!

What type is best? The tweezeer type or the credit card type?

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1h and no comments on Ferdinand’s bow tie, such STWrestraint. Anyway at 14wks I would expect him to be self tying, not using a pre-tied number. Also please no matching cummerbund

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yes, that one. twist, remove, surgical, or straight down the bog. I’ve been told you should keep incase dog develops illness, that could be arse but better safe…

Does Ferdinand like to sit in fields and smell the flowers?

I mean, are they even anywhere in the food chain?

You wouldn’t starve this fellow would you?

^shield Bug

You wouldn’t starve this fellow would you?

Certainly not! But I haven’t seen any of those in Scotland. (or anywhere else in the UK for that matter) 🙂

They sometimes pop over for the first week in June but there was was a family wedding this year so they couldn’t get.

Ah yes, the Blood Eyed Zombie Finch…

Mostly they come at night, mostly….

Does Ferdinand like to sit in fields and smell the flowers?

He likes flowers, poetry and the ladies

My latest critter…

Lipoptena cervi

[url=https://flic.kr/p/YbwzxD]P1470064[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8crvDZuwE[/video]

I haven’t seen any of those in Scotland. (or anywhere else in the UK for that matter)

Over here it’ll be a magpie or similar. I can’t speak for the north but around here (and it could actually be a very local thing, as in local to the orchard in which I live) the mags would settle on the back of muntjac and pick off the ticks. It happened for quite a few generations of birds but was broken one year when they lost a lot of ground to the jays. The following year the muntjac would assume the position* but the mags would just stare and wonder WTF was going on. Shame, seeing that kind of symbiosis come to an abrupt end.

I have it on vid, of course… 🙂

Edit : * The Position was the deer standing still and dropping its rear slightly. The mags would just descend and crack on until the deer had enough and straightened its back.

Does he like to sit under a cork tree?

Yup members of the crow family will eat ticks off animals.

I was lead to believe that the large ticks were badger ticks…

Found a fully fed one in the bed once