To be totally freaked out by what I just found on my towel?

[tastylancs]

My heart is pounding honestly. What is this insect? Do I need to boil all sheets and towels? Burn the house down?

It's the size of a large puy lentil. Perfectly round with legs. Filled with brown bits, kind of like a teabag.

Heart still pounding. Please help. I can't actually look at my own photo.

Horrid but fascinating! I’m really old and I’ve never seen one of these before. Do they bite people or just bats?

Im never very keen on either transparent creatures (bar SOME jellyfish) where you can see all their insides, or animals with no fur

yes they bite people.

filled with little black rods

{vom}

This chart www.ticktwister.co.uk/ticks-uk-ireland/ says no record of bites to humans.

A bat tick ! I have never seen one of those. How interesting.

Oh I love bats, their passengers not so much.

Well done nettle

Bat tick. Ugh.

Why do I keep checking back on this thread? What am I doing? 🤢

Ewwwww! - but also fascinating.

Regardless of it being a singular bat tick, id probably still burn my house down, just to be sure

I quite like the idea of a walking teabag.

Can we just do an Aibu vote to cancel Brexit and use the money we'd save to firebomb Cumbria?

No offence OP, needs must and all that.

Ticks go through different life cycle stages and in the larval stage they have 6 legs. The weird freaky bastards.

Bugger me sideways. The power of MN to identify a bat tick!! You bloody show off OP, why can't you have a spider or something like anyone else!

Still have to move out though.

Typed that and found a grasshopper in my hair. Screaming. Dog scared too.

There are entomologists who would like to add that to their collection...

There are entomologists who would like to add that to their collection...

Stick it on ebay

I'm not usually insect phobic (once had to share a shower with a cockroach in Spain because he refused to get out) but my God, that THING is just creeping me out! ((shudders))

@legalseagull Regardless of it being a singular bat tick, id probably still burn my house down, just to be sure

🤣🤣🤣

A bat tick!

My goodness.

Strangest thing just happened.

Found a tick on the dog & then one on me!

Well done nettle that is quite cool!

Boiling my towels and packing my bags.

DH is a pest controller and says it’s a mite. How big is it OP? He’ll be better with identifying it exactly with an idea of size.