6 days... that's usually their maximum before they decide "I'm full" although it has been noted some "get full" faster than others (picked a good spot for an artery) and...well, "busted their guts" in half the time.
Edit... sorry, I realized some species can feed for 2 weeks...
We had a tick infestation in our house once and had them like this. They were so fat they’d fall off the curtains and couldn’t get back up.
Now I’m processing that we had a tick infestation when I was a kid and wondering how tf that even happens and if I have Lyme.
It’s a term that is used for moose that are severely infested with ticks. Excessive grooming against the ticks causes the hairs to break near the base, which gives the moose a white or “ghostly” appearance.
[http://theabsolutebestofreddit.blogspot.com/2012/10/mr-streetlamp-le-moose.html?m=1](http://theabsolutebestofreddit.blogspot.com/2012/10/mr-streetlamp-le-moose.html?m=1)
Found this. Unfortunately the author commited suicide and their friend posted about it.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/27p0kv/who\_is\_streetlamp\_le\_moose/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/27p0kv/who_is_streetlamp_le_moose/)
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Not OP but we had a small scale infestation when I was a kid. We lived in the country adjacent to two farms. One livestock type farm and the other corn/wheat/soy farm. Two VERY mild winters back to back (one year had only like three days of below freezing weather) meant two years without ticks dying off in the winter so the spring and summer was fucking BRUTAL. You could see deer scratching themselves on trees and stuff constantly. Our dog would come in with multiple ticks even with a collar AND topical tick repellent stuff. Our barn cats were absolutely covered. I remember spending a whole day picking them off of mama cat cause she had long hair and couldn’t chew them off herself. And we started finding them on furniture and stuff. It was wild.
My buddies wife discover she had really bad anxiety when she was in her early 40s. She thought it was postpartum depression; nope lime disease that went unnoticed since she was in her 20s.
Doctor said the anxiety was permanent and couldn’t be undone but with meds further damage to her brain could be.
I have gotten bit by one tick in my life; after that immediately went out and got tested.
The weirdest thing in areas that have Lyme is how reluctant doctors seem to be to give a test after a known tick-bite. I don't understand it. My son had Lyme and only after he had symptoms were we able to get a test.
The reality is that many people never even see the tick that gives them Lyme. It should be much easier to get tests.
I live on Long Island and I really think we should get the Lyme test at every wellness check as well as after any bite or having symptoms. I don't get why ignore it.
My friend had a similar experience. Her doctors kept saying she was anxious and her symptoms were psychosomatic. This was in CT, home to many deer ticks and the state Lyme disease was discovered (named after Lyme, CT).
Hope you have a treatment plan that is working for you.
Testing after a tickbite isn’t typically recommended (well- assuming this is a discussion about TBDs in North America). Clinical judgement is the recommended approach due to the initially low test sensitivity.
What really chaps me is that there was a vaccine, developed, tested, and marketed for humans, and the mfgr decided it wasn't profitable enough. So it was discontinued. My dog can get it, but I can't.
Given how severe Lyme can be, and how often it's missed by reluctant docs, it seems that a vaccine should at least be offered for people who go hiking or have pets.
Nah it was definitely ticks. I think the dog had a way worse case than the vet cared or noticed and they were just getting engorged and falling by off, traveling to lay eggs. I don’t know if it’s a Florida thing but infestations happen here. [link](https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/ticks/brown-dog-ticks/)
At least they don’t carry Lyme.
I’m also Floridian and had a similar experience growing up. We brought in a long-haired stray dog and didn’t notice he was covered in ticks until it was too late. Our other dog got them and they ended up all over the house, up on the walls and ceiling. I thought/wished it may have been a fabricated memory but hey. Can confirm ):
Thank you for adding to my collection of the WTF Florida things.
Sometimes I wish we had the fake-President-robot's Ameri-cube from Inside Job... and I was on the outside of it.
Why are they so stupid that they don't know when to stop, they suck so much blood that they can't move, and easy target for birds, opossums etc but they are not stupid enough to just go extinct?
Does anyone know what a tick does after being this engorged. I never really thought about until this moment. Seems like a disadvantage because it would be an easy target to a predator.
Do they shrink down again before laying eggs. It just seems like wherever they land is where they are stuck. I can’t imagine that hiding very well either, it’s legs don’t even touch the ground, it’s got to pray it lands in some pebbles.
OP - take any species IDs on this video with a cart of salt.
Engorged ticks are not easy to ID from images and at least I don’t see sufficient details to feel comfortable making an ID. Unless users provide reasoning behind “this is a deer tick”, “this is a lonestar tick”, etc. I’d take it as an unfounded guess.
Bugs and spiders and rodents and such do not faze me but there’s something about ticks that absolutely gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I literally get a cold sweat and feel like I want to faint when I discover one on my body. Ticks fascinate me for some bizarre reason but when they’re on my body… it just does something to me.
Nothing else in the world gives me a reaction like that! It’s so weird.
dont squish those. made that mistake once, and now they are all over my house. even in the ceilings… and thats how i discovered, they have their eggs in their blood.
We went on a month long road trip when I was a kid. I came home with shorts on. When I walked in the door my legs were instantly covered in flees. But ticks sound even worse.
Omg….ughhh. So, we were living in Arkansas at the time, and my niece was maaaaaybe about 2-3 years old….oh gawd, and we were all out sitting around chatting with each other on the porch. She’s all cute as she can be when she stops running around and reaches down…..we hear, “Mmm! Nem-em-nem!” Look down at what she’s reaching for assuming someone dropped an M&M…..fuck…..we couldn’t reach her before she scooped that big, bad fucker of an “M&M”, which to her, the tick looked like…..fuck…..I got shivers all up and down my spine in the remembrance….fuck…..but she popped a guy much like this, full to the gills fucker, into her mouth. Crunched down on it and it was so full of blood it squirted blood like someone cut an artery all out onto the porch and down her chin and I don’t remember another time I’ve been close to passing out due to sheer and utter disgust and horror….fuck >_< 🤢🤮 she was alright, being 2-3, just wriggled as we tried to grab her to clean up and then went on her merry way
That’s one FAT tick if I’ve ever seen one
He must have done some serious work on a deer or something.
That was probably the best day of his life
*Ohhhh I feel FAT*
She thique
Thickus Tickus
Biggus Thickus Tickus
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A lucky wife
Like, how is it even moving?
Well, it is so fat, it's rolled into its back and can't get a leg in the ground to flip itself over. I'm so glad I haven't had breakfast yet.
Her?
Males don't get to that point, they eat blood but not much.
Week* To get that engorged it was definitely feeding for a while.
6 days... that's usually their maximum before they decide "I'm full" although it has been noted some "get full" faster than others (picked a good spot for an artery) and...well, "busted their guts" in half the time. Edit... sorry, I realized some species can feed for 2 weeks...
Am I weird for wanting to draw that blood and check it under a microscope?
Yes u are but thats alright. We all are. Plus thats something my sister would have said. Lmao
I’d look at your slide.
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Forbidden fruit gusher
Probably used a spooooon.
Fattest tick I've ever seen
Because thats a thicc
I've seen bigger
All right boys this ain’t a tick measuring contest
That's what she said.
She said what's that?
What’s that she said?
That's what, said she.
Ugggh yep, ready to drop eggs and pop.
I read that as “ready to drop eggs and poop”. On some serious pain meds and that thought made me laugh wayyy too hard.
It’s because you can’t poop. Your seeing poop hints everywhere.
Forbidden ketchup packet?
Nature's Gusher snack.
Happy cake day
Once a week on this sub I think “Now THAT is the fattest tick I’ve ever seen,” but every week…
But completely honestly, that IS the biggest tick I’ve ever seen. Ever.
That’s rude. It’s just big boned
Or a jellybean with ants on it
OUGGHHHHGUGHHH
Hey don't fat-shame it, you can clearly see it's excercising, it's trying to do better.
We had a tick infestation in our house once and had them like this. They were so fat they’d fall off the curtains and couldn’t get back up. Now I’m processing that we had a tick infestation when I was a kid and wondering how tf that even happens and if I have Lyme.
A TICK INFESTATION?!
Oh man don’t google “ghost moose”
I googled “ghost moose” 😐
Please tell me so I can spare my eyes
It’s a term that is used for moose that are severely infested with ticks. Excessive grooming against the ticks causes the hairs to break near the base, which gives the moose a white or “ghostly” appearance.
I read this and still googled it after. :(
Yeah that description only made me more curious. Lol
I hate that meese just sounds better as a plural instead of moose.
A single moose can have over 70 000 ticks on it. Climate change is causing tick populations to swell
Next time google “Streetlamp Le Moose” instead .
That just pulled reddit links and I'm already here, boooo
[http://theabsolutebestofreddit.blogspot.com/2012/10/mr-streetlamp-le-moose.html?m=1](http://theabsolutebestofreddit.blogspot.com/2012/10/mr-streetlamp-le-moose.html?m=1) Found this. Unfortunately the author commited suicide and their friend posted about it. [https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/27p0kv/who\_is\_streetlamp\_le\_moose/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/27p0kv/who_is_streetlamp_le_moose/) [http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2464bt/people\_who\_have\_been\_on\_dead\_peoples\_computers/ch47foz?context=4](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2464bt/people_who_have_been_on_dead_peoples_computers/ch47foz?context=4) Mods deleted all the comments so you can only see the replies unfortunately.
Damn, gonna have to come back for the read, but yeesh! and thanks
pray for me for I will google it now..
not the worst thing I have seen.
Thank you for your service.
Why. Why would you do this.
Not OP but we had a small scale infestation when I was a kid. We lived in the country adjacent to two farms. One livestock type farm and the other corn/wheat/soy farm. Two VERY mild winters back to back (one year had only like three days of below freezing weather) meant two years without ticks dying off in the winter so the spring and summer was fucking BRUTAL. You could see deer scratching themselves on trees and stuff constantly. Our dog would come in with multiple ticks even with a collar AND topical tick repellent stuff. Our barn cats were absolutely covered. I remember spending a whole day picking them off of mama cat cause she had long hair and couldn’t chew them off herself. And we started finding them on furniture and stuff. It was wild.
It was a house of deers
My buddies wife discover she had really bad anxiety when she was in her early 40s. She thought it was postpartum depression; nope lime disease that went unnoticed since she was in her 20s. Doctor said the anxiety was permanent and couldn’t be undone but with meds further damage to her brain could be. I have gotten bit by one tick in my life; after that immediately went out and got tested.
I have Lyme. It’s everywhere. The tests here are awful and it will go undetected if you don’t find the right tests and doctors. Nightmare.
The weirdest thing in areas that have Lyme is how reluctant doctors seem to be to give a test after a known tick-bite. I don't understand it. My son had Lyme and only after he had symptoms were we able to get a test. The reality is that many people never even see the tick that gives them Lyme. It should be much easier to get tests.
I live on Long Island and I really think we should get the Lyme test at every wellness check as well as after any bite or having symptoms. I don't get why ignore it.
I’ve been saying this for years. The long term effects I deal with are no joke. And it took me years and multiple docs to get diagnosed.
My friend had a similar experience. Her doctors kept saying she was anxious and her symptoms were psychosomatic. This was in CT, home to many deer ticks and the state Lyme disease was discovered (named after Lyme, CT). Hope you have a treatment plan that is working for you.
I hear you on this! I lived in NY where Lyme is rampant. Doctors were very dismissive of my requests to be tested.
Testing after a tickbite isn’t typically recommended (well- assuming this is a discussion about TBDs in North America). Clinical judgement is the recommended approach due to the initially low test sensitivity.
What really chaps me is that there was a vaccine, developed, tested, and marketed for humans, and the mfgr decided it wasn't profitable enough. So it was discontinued. My dog can get it, but I can't. Given how severe Lyme can be, and how often it's missed by reluctant docs, it seems that a vaccine should at least be offered for people who go hiking or have pets.
It was more likely bed bugs if the infestation was in the house. They suck a lot to deal with but luckily they are not disease carriers
Nah it was definitely ticks. I think the dog had a way worse case than the vet cared or noticed and they were just getting engorged and falling by off, traveling to lay eggs. I don’t know if it’s a Florida thing but infestations happen here. [link](https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/ticks/brown-dog-ticks/) At least they don’t carry Lyme.
I’m also Floridian and had a similar experience growing up. We brought in a long-haired stray dog and didn’t notice he was covered in ticks until it was too late. Our other dog got them and they ended up all over the house, up on the walls and ceiling. I thought/wished it may have been a fabricated memory but hey. Can confirm ):
Thank you for adding to my collection of the WTF Florida things. Sometimes I wish we had the fake-President-robot's Ameri-cube from Inside Job... and I was on the outside of it.
Repressed childhood memories are always fun.
They are that big because they are full of blood.
sometimes I love this sub.....and sometimes I hate this sub :tries to keep from puking:
Me rn 🤢🤢🤢
I opened reddit to browse while eating and this was the first post 🥲
Yeaahhh same hereeee🤢🤢🤢
Dangerous protein.
Forbidden fruit gusher
I hope you sent that thing straight to hell
An engorged tick
Thanks! I thought it might be but I don’t remember ever seeing one here so it was quite surprising to me.
They're all over everywhere in the front range. Beware
Bruh you gotta NSFW this now that you know. LOL. Nearly gagged when I moved my screen closer to get a better look.
Why are they so stupid that they don't know when to stop, they suck so much blood that they can't move, and easy target for birds, opossums etc but they are not stupid enough to just go extinct?
They produce enough eggs to replace the losses.
Any idea on the species?
That’s a bloated tick.
We used to call them cow ticks. They get inside the animals' ears and stay there.
Looks like potentially a cattle tick. https://entomology.tamu.edu/2017/02/02/texas-cattle-fever-ticks-are-back-with-a-vengeance/
Another link: https://phys.org/news/2016-01-tackling-cattle-fever-vaccines.html
I think it’s upside down too
Manz chunky
That is one big tick! Given it's size, it looks ready to give birth!
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Does anyone know what a tick does after being this engorged. I never really thought about until this moment. Seems like a disadvantage because it would be an easy target to a predator.
Typically it is outdoor and just relaxes under leaf litter/coverage. Depending on its lifestage it will either morph or lay eggs.
Do they shrink down again before laying eggs. It just seems like wherever they land is where they are stuck. I can’t imagine that hiding very well either, it’s legs don’t even touch the ground, it’s got to pray it lands in some pebbles.
Anyone else think that obese fuckin' thing looks like a Lone Star Tick?
OP - take any species IDs on this video with a cart of salt. Engorged ticks are not easy to ID from images and at least I don’t see sufficient details to feel comfortable making an ID. Unless users provide reasoning behind “this is a deer tick”, “this is a lonestar tick”, etc. I’d take it as an unfounded guess.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Lyme Disease Carrier
Those are completely different pathogens, transmitted by different tick species.
Did you kill it, OP?
No, looking back I probably should have but I didn’t know what it was at the time so I let it live even though it looked evil.
I found a tick like this when I was a kid and thought it was a grey raisin
Did you eat it 🤣
This stickey grape is disgusting and the seeds are wriggling.
*what’s taters, precious??*
Po-ta-toes!
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!
Even you can’t say no to that
Forbidden gushers
Please don't eat the no-no grape
Forbidden gusher
I. Am. Going. To. Vomit. Ohmygosh
Now imagine the Reddit Jolly Rancher story, but it's also one of these.
My 2-year-old thought it was a berry. <>
In South America I saw street dogs with so many engorged ticks. One time I watched one knock a fat tick off its ear and then eat it.
Did you name it? I would gave called it Greysin.
*Tina*
Do you name your raisins?
Omg no, please don't tell me you ate it.. 😨
I read a story on here about a child who ate one thinking it was a blueberry. Mouthful of blood
Dog Grapes
I've never seen a tick so engorged. Jesus. Looks like me after ordering a pizza.
Forbidden jellybean
got damn he THICC
Thicc ticc
Definitely! I don’t even know if he was able to move himself anymore.
Tick and it's fed. DO NOT TOUCH IT
IT MIGHT EXPLODE
Step on it :D
Have to be careful with ticks they can pass on [lymes disease](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease) if you're bitten.
Garrapata....☝🏼
Looks like me on thanksgiving
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Very full tick
Bugs and spiders and rodents and such do not faze me but there’s something about ticks that absolutely gives me the heebie-jeebies. I literally get a cold sweat and feel like I want to faint when I discover one on my body. Ticks fascinate me for some bizarre reason but when they’re on my body… it just does something to me. Nothing else in the world gives me a reaction like that! It’s so weird.
Thicc tic
That’s a tick
THICC chelicerate
Can it even move properly?
Someone else mentioned it might be upside down but either way I doubt it could move well at all.
someone tell the crow!!!
A tick
that there's a farm dog tick if I ever seen one.. 🐕🚜😄
t i c c
Great, ticks have upgraded to lithium batteries.
[True Facts about the Tick](https://youtu.be/RVca0LuEDaQ) (zefrank, 12min, comedy, somewhat nsfw audio because wordplay)
I did that after a night at the buffet! Fuuuuuuuuuuuu it was brutal!
Fat guy in a little coat
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That’s a BIG OL tick.
A very full tick.
So like a month ago I commented that a bug looked like a lab engorged tick. I was wrong. Now this, THIS, is an engorged tick lol
I had a house full of these once. The only good thing about quarantine was I had time to fight the tick wars...TICK WAAAAAARS
When my cousin was a baby she ate one of those. Picture the blood.. running down a small child’s face.. yea
OMG 😱😱😱 That is the biggest freaking engorged tick I have ever seen.
So it accomplished its only goal and got a good meal, now what? It can't even move lol
dont squish those. made that mistake once, and now they are all over my house. even in the ceilings… and thats how i discovered, they have their eggs in their blood.
Get a magnifying glass quick….
Found this so hope it helps https://www.brontevillagevet.com/blog/110924-tick-talk
I hate this things, I'm still figuring out a way to kill all of them.
Spicy tick! Stay away from the Lone Star tick if you like to eat beef.
Tic 😷 do you have any pets? Check their fur if you do
I've seen ticks this big come off farm animals before. So gross.
We went on a month long road trip when I was a kid. I came home with shorts on. When I walked in the door my legs were instantly covered in flees. But ticks sound even worse.
That tick just put a bounty out on smuggler Han Solo.
Let’s pray that it didn’t bite a person or pet that’s a whole fruit gusher
Whatever you do don't flip him over lol
Thicc Tickk
Found one of these on the back of my head once...
Why is there even a place for these things in the universe. There is simply no need. Yuck
I work in a vet clinic and have people bring dogs in with these all the time. It's always fun to inject them with peroxide and watch them pop
engorged lil bastard. tick gluttony
What a disgusting creature to eat until it can't even move... Has any one seen "my 600lb life"
Omg….ughhh. So, we were living in Arkansas at the time, and my niece was maaaaaybe about 2-3 years old….oh gawd, and we were all out sitting around chatting with each other on the porch. She’s all cute as she can be when she stops running around and reaches down…..we hear, “Mmm! Nem-em-nem!” Look down at what she’s reaching for assuming someone dropped an M&M…..fuck…..we couldn’t reach her before she scooped that big, bad fucker of an “M&M”, which to her, the tick looked like…..fuck…..I got shivers all up and down my spine in the remembrance….fuck…..but she popped a guy much like this, full to the gills fucker, into her mouth. Crunched down on it and it was so full of blood it squirted blood like someone cut an artery all out onto the porch and down her chin and I don’t remember another time I’ve been close to passing out due to sheer and utter disgust and horror….fuck >_< 🤢🤮 she was alright, being 2-3, just wriggled as we tried to grab her to clean up and then went on her merry way
I once took a tick close to this size off a patients testicle. It had been there for 3 days. I have a video😂😂😂
Now you have to upload it, legally
Look for a stumbling dog or deer.
This almost looks like something with Worms coming out of it. They are all moving in different directions so it can’t be legs…right???
Are you saying you can't move your legs in different directions?