Just cleaning the bedroom, and found this next to the bed. Assume it’s the remains of a tick, although seems kinda large….plus missing a set of legs? Guess it could have been there for 5-ish days.
Point of note, was looking after mate’s dog which has been sleeping on the bed.
you’d have felt an irritation/been itching it by now if it had been eating you.
never mind all that – what the hell was the dog doing in the bedroom, never mind on the bed!!??
Yeah – not nice.
It’s worth getting some tick twisters to get them off cleanly. Saves mucking about with tweezers and then losing the head. We’ve got some like this and twisted a couple out of my cats just now with no bother.
Oh barf! I’ve never really looked closely at what they look like, but we all get ticks every summer when we go sailing in Scotland. We do a tick check everyday and the blighters are removed with tweezers (my husband is now quite the pro). But the first one we ever found was in my belly button and was pretty full, it had clearly been there for several days! Again, barf!
bongohoohaa – Member
I’m 100% behind the idea of it not being a tick….soooooo what is this tick like thing if not a tick?
A kind of stink bug … I guess.
I used to help my dogs rid of the ticks in the far east I thought could recognised one dead or alive.
But the ticks in the western world is lethal while those in the far east not. On the other hand, our mosquito in the far east will kill you but the mosquito here is so large it’s harmless.
Agree not a tick. Agree looks like some shield/stink bug, albeit mangled/chewed with head/legs missing. But those back legs look really long and the pattern is unfamiliar.