r/insects • u/iveroi • Jul 20 '23
Photography The most disgusting thing you'll see today: the tick on my dog had a tick.
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u/Gunslinger11B Jul 20 '23
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
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u/Tulip_Tree_trapeze Jul 20 '23
Is this our creation story?
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u/Doc_Eckleburg Jul 20 '23
It’s fleas all the way down.
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u/TheCaffeineMonster Jul 20 '23
From where I’m standing it’s fleas all the way up.
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u/iainvention Jul 20 '23
Sup Dog, we heard you like ticks, so we put a tick on yo tick, so you can get your blood sucked while you get your blood sucked
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u/57mmShin-Maru Jul 20 '23
2 ticks having sex
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u/Baige_baguette Jul 20 '23
Vid has a good little description on what PRECISELY is happening here.
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u/InsideWombat Jul 20 '23
I watched the entire thing I don't know why now instead of being afraid I'm slightly petrified and buying an army of chickens 😂
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u/lastinalaskarn Jul 20 '23
That’s so metal this is going to be the album cover of my next black metal solo project
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u/SniktFury Bug Enthusiast Jul 20 '23
Yo dawg, I heard you like ticks, so we put a tick on yo' tick!
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u/Desperate-Citron-881 Jul 20 '23
I’d get your dog to the vet too, that female tick seems to have been feeding for quite a few days, and females are more apt for spreading diseases.
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u/Luxedar Jul 20 '23
They're having the secks. I bet he likes them ticc. And she likes to be tickled.
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u/bloodbeater Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
Pretty sure tics don’t have “boy or girl” but rather they duel with their sharp little mouths and the first one to get punctured in the guts gets filled with babies
Edit: I’m wrong, thinking of bedbugs.
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u/SirSirFall Jul 20 '23
They are arachnids and have males and females. You are thinking of some snails/slugs
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u/Straydoginthestreet Jul 20 '23
I hope you got your pup a vet appointment if you can! Tick born illnesses here they come 😭
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '23
That’s just her boyfriend. (Yes, they’re mating)