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

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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.

Best thread ever 🤣

I will deal with ticky mctickface tomorrow. All guilt is gone. I'm back to squirming horror and fear of everlasting disease. I will not wait two years for nature to take its course. No.

Now going to cheer self up with another viewing of Derry.

Definitely a tick and most likely deer

I am between laughing and crying! Im laughing at some of the comments, and crying because you found it on your towel. I’m hoping it was from washing you brought in or I’d faint. I’m confused at how you are going to get it in a ZL bag, because I wouldn’t touch the thing and cryghing ( yes, I amalgamated the two words and made a new one) because you may have to count it’s legs and check for others. Sorry, a mums job is to expensive to put a final annual salary on! Best of luck sweetie. I think I’d just spray everything in sight with raid and pray hard.

I'm afraid he needs to be squished.

Love the Catch him Derry video. It's my favourite youtube. I quote from it every time we see a bat.

That tick should be feeling very privileged to live in a naice lakeland poly bag. He's probably slowed down as he realises he's arrived.

Kill it!!!!!

Please excuse me hijacking your thread OP but as lots of insect people are gathered I wondered if anyone could tell me what to do with this ( apart from bulldoze the wall from the inside).

And could someone answer quickly please as they are spreading out and threatening to take over the house!

I thought I had something extra to add here after buying lovely new towels (bath sheets £4.99 in Aldi, they are very lovely, both cottony and crispy with just enough plush!!!)
Washed them, line dried, and dh brought them in to air...I was folding them up and spotted a DARK bit...after reading this it made me jump a bit.....but it was a direct hit from the bloody birds, so a nice brown birdy splat, and not an exciting tick

back to the washer!

And remember to whipcrack those towels!

@Undercoverdetective
looks like a spider and her babies!

I'd get someone (dh) to put them outside with a stern word not to come back in.

Undercoverdetective Spider nest! 😱

Argh! Spider babies!!! 😱😱

Bring back the teabag!

But the spider is there. Will they all die if I remove them from her care.

I’d Hoover them up, but only if you’ve got a Hoover with a bag! It’s not that inhuman there’s lots of food in there for them and it’s nice and dark, and there is always the possibility they could crawl out if they want to make a bid for freedom

Oh god. I live in an area with a high population of bats and after an incident with a spider yesterday I think I'll have to put the house on the market. I'd bathed my 13wk DD and laid her on her snuggly hooded towel when a huge house spider crawled out from the hood OVER HER FACE! I screamed, she screamed and toddler DS and his little friend started crying at the commotion. It was touch and go for a while.

Having to check towels for spiders and those ugly bat ticks is more than I can bare. I think we'll be drip-drying from now on so save us from the ordeal.

Aw spider babies 🕷 😍

Leave the spiderlings alone and they will disperse naturally.

@Littlefrog99.. truly shocking. I'd be traumatised for life! It reminds me of when i was little and i was playing under a porch at home when i suddenly felt something tickling my cheek. I felt my face and grabbed a massive black spider which must have dropped down on my head and unknowing to me made its way down to my face! 😱 total meltdown! I prised it away..Yes prised..it was actually hanging on!!..and trod on its leg in shock. Unforgettable

And once DS had a false black widow on his coat sleeve which was moving up his arm very quickly. Instinct kicked in and i whacked it off him. They can give a nasty bite and are getting more common now. Urgh, feel itchy now. Sorry everyone

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

@Undercoverdetective Only one thing can help!

DRACARYS!

Never mind the tick, you've put me right off tea bags.

I can't stand bats, nasty flitty flying leathery things yuk. Hope no of my cats ever catch one they would be motherless as I would leave thd country immediately. Not so bothered about the teabag looking tick though

@MonaLisaDoesntSmile thank you. They were removed to the garden and a head count was done to make sure noone was left in the house to grow. Where can I borrow a dragon from?