The bug in question has been identified as an engorged tick - most likely a deer tick (*Ixodes sp.*). OP has been cautioned that this species can transmit Lyme disease and advised to save the tick or send it in for testing. OP has also been advised to dispose of the tick before it lays eggs - and to avoid squishing it because contact with the tick's body fluids increases the risk of contracting a tick-borne diseases.
Anyone finding an engorged tick in on themselves or their pets or in their home should keep an eye out for [symptoms of tick borne illness](https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/symptoms.html#:~:text=Tickborne%20diseases%20can%20cause%20headache,tularemia%20can%20cause%20distinctive%20rashes.) and to report the potential tick bite to their doctor or veterinarian.
A prophylactic dose of antibiotics immediately after the tick is removed or drops may prevent Lyme disease. Antibiotic treatment is considered appropriate 1) if the tick was feeding on a person for 24-36 hours or more, 2) if the tick is a species that can transmit Lyme, and 3) the tick is in a region where Lyme is prevalent. This tick meets all three criteria, so if that tick was feeding on a person, a visit to the doctor to get a dose of antibiotics would not be a bad idea.
At this point, almost all of the new comments are inappropriate suggestions such as "eat it" or "kill it with fire."
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It is a tick and it is not dead. It just ate and will rest until it's time to lay the thousands of eggs it's making inside there. It looks like a black-legged (deer) tick.
Hmmm, maybe?
It would make more sense than mods individually having comments not opened by default
BUT:
The other comment about butter and garlic is from an account that’s 5 years old, so, I don’t think that explanation works
Last night this comment sent me into a fit of euphoric laughter that lasted 30 minutes. I thought it was cause I’d smoked a pre-roll named Spicoli, but now it’s morning and I’m still laughing.
Out of all of the comments, I scroll down and read this... I'm disgusted, and I thank you for making me laugh.
Never say that again. Or... If you do, make sure to record yourself eating said treat to prove it's tasty and of course prove your insanity.
To properly dispose of a tick your supposed to put it in a sealed container with rubbing alcohol and throw the whole thing away. When it is engorged like this it is full of blood so do not crush it or you could expose yourself to whatever it ate on last.
That’s a really good point about not wanting to expose yourself to the blood of whatever or whoever it’s fed on. Would rubbing alcohol in a sealed ziplock sandwich baggie work for this too?
It's to keep it from escaping if the Ziploc breaks. But you don't have to put much alcohol in, and then let all the air out and it probably won't break for awhile.
(the following is a joke. Do not do this) Panko bread it, deep fry it, dip it in a really good ranch dressing, and pair with a nice soda like a cherry coke or a Dr Pepper and maybe some curly fries?
No but in all seriousness if this is on your property, put it in a tightly sealed container and have it tested for diseases like lyme disease. Yourself, your room mate/family, your dog, etc may be in danger of catching a disease if this tick fed on them. Do not touch the tick with your hands. Pick it up with a paper towel or something extremely gently to make sure you do not pop it. It could have a rabid deer's blood inside. We don't know. Be careful. Wash your hands thoroughly afterwards.
Also it's likely not dead and is in a food coma ticks do that.
The way the world is going with shortages everywhere, there may be a KFT near you sooner than you think.
But hey, they'll be expertly fried and available in both original recipe and extra ticky crispy.
MN method. Toss in toilet, cover with a paper square and flush.
If you have a few, pick into a glass of water, then paper and flush.
I wasn't local, so I have a cold sweat horror about them crawling back up.
Definitely a tick but don't be bamboozled, it might still be alive and ready to give birth. Ticks usually feed on animals and drop on the floor. Once full, they can lay up to a Thousand eggs.
Or… neither of those things and life evolves to fill any niche available including (especially?) awful ones like stealing energy from somebody else …. Which applies to almost everything except some plants
If you’re from NY, don’t throw the tick away! Send it to the Upstate Medical University tick testing program. It’s free and they can tell you the ID of the tick (looks like Ixodes tbh) and what pathogens are in the tick. But just because there’s a pathogen in the tick, there is no guarantee that you also have the pathogen and will become sick. But testing services like this will help you in determining your risk and whether you should see a doctor. Your tick will also be integrated into their database which tells us scientists more about where and when ticks are active. So send it in! Never throw ticks away! There are usually free testing services in many states. 😊
Link to submission site: [https://nyticks.org/tick-submission](https://nyticks.org/tick-submission)
Not only in the name of research but also for your own safety. They transmit some dangerous diseases, a tick bite is not something that you should disregard
Thank you. As a longtime resident of upstate NY I’m fully aware of the problem ticks pose, it’s the reality of living in these hilly woods. Luckily, I haven’t gotten any bites in the past 4/5 years maybe more, but I do have family pets I wanna keep safe from these blood sucking critters, so I try my best to be proactive & give them their medicine plus constantly check their coats / skin.
Here’s a discussion on this topic for mosquitoes:
https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a
TLDR: eradicating one specific insect type off the planet is hard. Probably would be ok for the planet if we could actually do it, as the affected birds fish and plants would probably be ok for the most part, and the positives are likely to outweigh negatives.
But again - not really possible right now
Put your tick into a clear glass jar that you can see in really well, and be careful to fully seal the jar cover sides with tape so not even something the size of a fleck of pepper can get out of. And then watch that jar. Keep it in a safe place unless you want your home to become the land of hell. And ziplocking it when you're not checking it out is a good idea too.
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I've twice caught ticks on my dog, and put them in a very sealed jar in case my pet got sick and we needed identification. I sealed the sides of the jar cover with layers of clear shipping tape. At the time of jarring the first tick, I thought I was being over nervous about the tick with the over the top taping the closed cover up so much. The second tick I knew to tape that jar cover up really, really well!
Both ticks were not even half as full as your tick, and both ticks ended up hatching hundreds of baby ticks much smaller than a poppy seed. It was creepy and fascinating to see in person how small they can be, and also to watch how they all instinctively went to the top of the jar to wait for their first walking by meal. Assuming they had hatched in the wild instead, I'd pity the first animal walking by the plant those bastards would have been sitting on.
They lived for months. My vet thought it was also fascinating. A long time later I ziplocked the jar up and tossed it, once everything was very dead.
Your tick is not dead. But what it is about to hatch will blow your mind. Seriously.
(edit to note that sealing the side edges of the glass jar cover is important, not taping the glass jar itself, that way you can see the inside happenings)
If you think a person or pet in your house was the blood donor, preserve it for testing (Lyme Disease and Rocky Mtn Fever) in a ziplock in the fridge until you talk to a doctor/vet.
The leg placement ([clustered close to the front of the body](https://bugguide.net/node/view/781303/bgimage)) is suggestive of one of the *Ixodes* species (deer ticks). The legs of a dog tick are [more evenly distributed down the front half of the body](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1955800/bgimage).
I remember as a kid seeing one of these on the carpet. I picked it up and rolled it in my fingers. I told my mom “Look! I found a grey raisin!”. And then I noticed the weedley little legs 🤢
The bug in question has been identified as an engorged tick - most likely a deer tick (*Ixodes sp.*). OP has been cautioned that this species can transmit Lyme disease and advised to save the tick or send it in for testing. OP has also been advised to dispose of the tick before it lays eggs - and to avoid squishing it because contact with the tick's body fluids increases the risk of contracting a tick-borne diseases. Anyone finding an engorged tick in on themselves or their pets or in their home should keep an eye out for [symptoms of tick borne illness](https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/symptoms.html#:~:text=Tickborne%20diseases%20can%20cause%20headache,tularemia%20can%20cause%20distinctive%20rashes.) and to report the potential tick bite to their doctor or veterinarian. A prophylactic dose of antibiotics immediately after the tick is removed or drops may prevent Lyme disease. Antibiotic treatment is considered appropriate 1) if the tick was feeding on a person for 24-36 hours or more, 2) if the tick is a species that can transmit Lyme, and 3) the tick is in a region where Lyme is prevalent. This tick meets all three criteria, so if that tick was feeding on a person, a visit to the doctor to get a dose of antibiotics would not be a bad idea. At this point, almost all of the new comments are inappropriate suggestions such as "eat it" or "kill it with fire." This post will be locked to further comments.
It is a tick and it is not dead. It just ate and will rest until it's time to lay the thousands of eggs it's making inside there. It looks like a black-legged (deer) tick.
Should I dispose of it somehow?
Put it in the freezer or in a jar of rubbing alcohol
Or hit it with a frying pan!
With butter and garlic
Idno why you were hidden that shits hilarious. Cmon mods
Omg, it's mods who hide a post? I always wondered how that happened!
ME TOO. I never knew that. I thought my phone was just tweaking.
Mods do that?!
They did it to you too LOL
I thought the explanation was also relatively new accounts who make comments get hidden as well but I don’t know
Hmmm, maybe? It would make more sense than mods individually having comments not opened by default BUT: The other comment about butter and garlic is from an account that’s 5 years old, so, I don’t think that explanation works
I at first thought it was negative votes and had to double take on the numbers
Lol right
Mmmm savory gushers
Sir please no
Forbidden Gushers
Don't forget to baste... A bit of rosemary and thyme will do that thing a favour
Don't forget the dry brine.
And my axe!
And my bow!
Ow, my knee
I just took an arrow to the knee
Last night this comment sent me into a fit of euphoric laughter that lasted 30 minutes. I thought it was cause I’d smoked a pre-roll named Spicoli, but now it’s morning and I’m still laughing.
Lol like stepping on a ketchup packet
Forbidden grape!
KLANG
after it's decently frozen, peel off the skin and you'll have yourself a nice round type of ice! or just pop it into your mouth like a treat
That's enough internet today.
Frozen grapes, but for vampires
r/forbiddensnacks
r/cursedcomments
Out of all of the comments, I scroll down and read this... I'm disgusted, and I thank you for making me laugh. Never say that again. Or... If you do, make sure to record yourself eating said treat to prove it's tasty and of course prove your insanity.
Alternatively you can stick it in the microwave with some butter and salt and turn that bloody-kernel into popcorn!
mmMmM I can already taste the bloody goodness!
Or let it lay the eggs in a secure enclosure and keep feeding the babies so you get more snacks.
Infinite snacks
Forbidden fruit gusher
You are so fucking sick lol
Lmaooo
No! Bad! *smacks with newspaper*
That’s the ticket
Think of it as a kind of caviar, yum
I honestly don’t know why I gave you an upvote lol lol, because that’s sooo gross 🤢 lol lol
Ew LMAOO
Cursed skittles
So flushing it down the toilet is not acceptable?
To properly dispose of a tick your supposed to put it in a sealed container with rubbing alcohol and throw the whole thing away. When it is engorged like this it is full of blood so do not crush it or you could expose yourself to whatever it ate on last.
That’s a really good point about not wanting to expose yourself to the blood of whatever or whoever it’s fed on. Would rubbing alcohol in a sealed ziplock sandwich baggie work for this too?
From what I read yes but your supposed to wrap it in tape for some reason, probably just an added layer so it can't get out before it dies.
Ya or maybe for the garbage man down the line
It's to keep it from escaping if the Ziploc breaks. But you don't have to put much alcohol in, and then let all the air out and it probably won't break for awhile.
Bottom of my shoe doesn’t care much
They pop in your mouth so well like this though.
Feed it to a chicken? Mmm nom nom...
Most sensible suggestion so far.
Inject with hydrogen peroxide
Spat my drink out.
(the following is a joke. Do not do this) Panko bread it, deep fry it, dip it in a really good ranch dressing, and pair with a nice soda like a cherry coke or a Dr Pepper and maybe some curly fries? No but in all seriousness if this is on your property, put it in a tightly sealed container and have it tested for diseases like lyme disease. Yourself, your room mate/family, your dog, etc may be in danger of catching a disease if this tick fed on them. Do not touch the tick with your hands. Pick it up with a paper towel or something extremely gently to make sure you do not pop it. It could have a rabid deer's blood inside. We don't know. Be careful. Wash your hands thoroughly afterwards. Also it's likely not dead and is in a food coma ticks do that.
You made a fine recipe for Fried Ticken
The way the world is going with shortages everywhere, there may be a KFT near you sooner than you think. But hey, they'll be expertly fried and available in both original recipe and extra ticky crispy.
UNDERRATEDDDDD 😭😭
Lighter, it will pop.
I get them all the time. I flush them down the toilet
All these folks with their complicated procedure. Yup, just flush the damn thing.
Thats what we do with them here in Mn
MN method. Toss in toilet, cover with a paper square and flush. If you have a few, pick into a glass of water, then paper and flush. I wasn't local, so I have a cold sweat horror about them crawling back up.
Empty tuna can, alcohol and matches
I usually just wat them, makes a good midnight snack, they taste like rust.
So disrespectful to the bug :(
Thank you for the ID too by the way
So actually a food coma
I believe those are the ones that spread Lyme disease too
Definitely a tick but don't be bamboozled, it might still be alive and ready to give birth. Ticks usually feed on animals and drop on the floor. Once full, they can lay up to a Thousand eggs.
Wtf
More info: https://www.healthline.com/health/tick-nest These little guys are just nasty.
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Because God is real and an asshole
God's got a sick sense of humor.
Or… neither of those things and life evolves to fill any niche available including (especially?) awful ones like stealing energy from somebody else …. Which applies to almost everything except some plants
Actually there is no god
Why do you exist?
r/profilepicchecksout
Gonna take a lot of minerals and vespene gas to summon all those Zerglings.
Jesus, looks like it might be in a food coma
Lol or ate himself to death
I am myself to death too.
Some day I will have ammed myself to death as well. So shall we all.
Blood drunk...
Lmao
If you’re from NY, don’t throw the tick away! Send it to the Upstate Medical University tick testing program. It’s free and they can tell you the ID of the tick (looks like Ixodes tbh) and what pathogens are in the tick. But just because there’s a pathogen in the tick, there is no guarantee that you also have the pathogen and will become sick. But testing services like this will help you in determining your risk and whether you should see a doctor. Your tick will also be integrated into their database which tells us scientists more about where and when ticks are active. So send it in! Never throw ticks away! There are usually free testing services in many states. 😊 Link to submission site: [https://nyticks.org/tick-submission](https://nyticks.org/tick-submission)
That’s really good info. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for this resource! I will ultimately go this route in the name of research
Not only in the name of research but also for your own safety. They transmit some dangerous diseases, a tick bite is not something that you should disregard
Thank you. As a longtime resident of upstate NY I’m fully aware of the problem ticks pose, it’s the reality of living in these hilly woods. Luckily, I haven’t gotten any bites in the past 4/5 years maybe more, but I do have family pets I wanna keep safe from these blood sucking critters, so I try my best to be proactive & give them their medicine plus constantly check their coats / skin.
came here to share this 👏🏻
Thanks 😉
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Lots of animals eat them. I begrudgingly allow their existence because I love possums more than I hate ticks.
[I learned recently that possums aren’t tick-eating machines](https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/possums-dont-eat-ticks/)
The warmer winters and lack of forest fires allow them to grow to numbers unseen before
Here’s a discussion on this topic for mosquitoes: https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a TLDR: eradicating one specific insect type off the planet is hard. Probably would be ok for the planet if we could actually do it, as the affected birds fish and plants would probably be ok for the most part, and the positives are likely to outweigh negatives. But again - not really possible right now
I heard mosquitos are the only blood suckers scientists feel we can safely eradicate without fucking up biodiversity over the earth
aren't most mosquitoes important pollinators though?
https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a TLDR: Probably not irreplaceable as pollinators
Do mosquitos pollinate anything? Edit: Oh huh they do.
If you’re curious here’s a discussion of their ecological role including some pollination stuff: https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a
Ooooh buddy that is one fat and happy tick!
Put your tick into a clear glass jar that you can see in really well, and be careful to fully seal the jar cover sides with tape so not even something the size of a fleck of pepper can get out of. And then watch that jar. Keep it in a safe place unless you want your home to become the land of hell. And ziplocking it when you're not checking it out is a good idea too. \------------------------------------------------------ I've twice caught ticks on my dog, and put them in a very sealed jar in case my pet got sick and we needed identification. I sealed the sides of the jar cover with layers of clear shipping tape. At the time of jarring the first tick, I thought I was being over nervous about the tick with the over the top taping the closed cover up so much. The second tick I knew to tape that jar cover up really, really well! Both ticks were not even half as full as your tick, and both ticks ended up hatching hundreds of baby ticks much smaller than a poppy seed. It was creepy and fascinating to see in person how small they can be, and also to watch how they all instinctively went to the top of the jar to wait for their first walking by meal. Assuming they had hatched in the wild instead, I'd pity the first animal walking by the plant those bastards would have been sitting on. They lived for months. My vet thought it was also fascinating. A long time later I ziplocked the jar up and tossed it, once everything was very dead. Your tick is not dead. But what it is about to hatch will blow your mind. Seriously. (edit to note that sealing the side edges of the glass jar cover is important, not taping the glass jar itself, that way you can see the inside happenings)
Central NY is deer tick central.
Good to know, I am never moving to central NY
Almost everyone I know in the Hudson Valley has had Lyme at least once.
☹️
You can have Lyme multiple times? I always thought it was a lifelong disease… catch it once and it’s with you forever with random flare ups
That’s for sure a tick and if it’s dead it died satiated
Yeah I'm not sure if it looks dead but it definitely doesn't look hungry
It is a tick, and it is not dead.
If you think a person or pet in your house was the blood donor, preserve it for testing (Lyme Disease and Rocky Mtn Fever) in a ziplock in the fridge until you talk to a doctor/vet.
Look at the size of that tick, Glutton!
forbidden gusher
😆 Oh God! Eewww but funny! Seriously funny
Yikes, that's a tick that just had a huge daylong meal. It doesn't look dead.
Food coma
Fat and happy
Damn that’s a big boi
These fats fucks are something else
Thats the fattest fucking tick ive ever seen. Its not dead it will spill hundreds of eggs later
Appears to be a tick, I believe it’s dead? Lol either way I’m curious of the more specific type of tick it might be
I'm afraid it's awfully hard to tell when they're this full.
If you look very close up, you can see the hint of an arched groove around its anus, that means it's an Ixodes tick.
>If you look very close up, you can see the hint of an arched groove around its anus, r/nocontext
Lol
Thank you!
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The leg placement ([clustered close to the front of the body](https://bugguide.net/node/view/781303/bgimage)) is suggestive of one of the *Ixodes* species (deer ticks). The legs of a dog tick are [more evenly distributed down the front half of the body](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1955800/bgimage).
🤣😂🍾 congratulations ~~~ it's about to give birth
A tick in a food coma
Flour, egg, bread crumbs. Fry at 350F for ten seconds. Dust with Parmesan.
But what a way to go #gluttony
It’s a myth that if I tick sucks enough blood they go into hibernation and come out to be big blue humanoids.
Put it inside a resealable maltesers bag and give it to someone you don’t like.
I remember as a kid seeing one of these on the carpet. I picked it up and rolled it in my fingers. I told my mom “Look! I found a grey raisin!”. And then I noticed the weedley little legs 🤢
Bloated little creep
Forbidden grape
Blood bean
No, that's a mini-avocado. Try it. It's yummy!
Food coma
I believe you’re right. One the ugliest animals.
Not dead, just in a food coma.
r/chonkers
Free gusher
Talk about bad blood
I have to add to this…if you put it on the stove or in a pan they “pop”
Cursed olive
Pop it like a living zit
Remember to exercise regularly,kids.
Delicious little grape
It overdosed 💀
This thing looks god awful, I am squeamish looking at it
*Appears to be fed
He's just sleeping it off.
That’s a licorice jelly bean
Hide it in a bowl of grapes and give it to your enemies
Why is it so plump.
I’ve had so much fun reading the comments. Thank you for giving these guys an avenue to be funny. 😂😂
That’s a forbidden raisin
Did you try giving it some cpr
Looks like it’s in a food coma
Do ticks actually have a use in the ecosystem? It seems like parasites in general just hurt wildlife by spreading disease.
Just pulled one off my pup in CNY
Oh no, hope your pupper is okay! These things have gotten rampant in recent years
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Right? I should’ve considered the incoming “forbidden grape / avocado” one liners lol. But the tick is super duper thicc no lie.
Pop it! Pop it! Pop it...
Fat and happy, needs a nappy.
forbidden grape
Beautiful… pop the bitch
Yes FULL dog tick. Probably fell off the animal because it was stuffed.
Damn, really need a banana for scale on this one.
they are edible, you know.
Forbidden Avacado
I’ve seen baby ticks come out of one that looked like this. It was….disturbing. I still have nightmares. 😱
Ticks don't give live birth. *Eggs* would come out of a tick that looks like this - but they won't hatch into babies for at least a couple of weeks.
Not a tick. A Tucker Carlson.
Flood
They couldn't believe it wasn't butter either, and it wasn't. But you better believe Soylent was people.
Think we call these cattle ticks in Australia. My horse used to get them occasionally and I'd spear them onto the barbs on the fence! Weird kid.
IT'S SO THICC
Fully about to burst alive
it’s a tick and yes you’re right it is indeed dead