bent540's video: Macrovideo of tick

A tick i pulled out the other day. It was later tortured for intel on whereabouts of any tick gangmember (In common with other species of Ixodes, I. ricinus has no eyes and is not ornate; it has no festoons (wrinkles along the posterior margin). The palpi are longer than they are wide, and there is an anal groove above the anus. It has a hard dorsal shield which covers the entire opisthosoma (abdomen), but only part of it in females and nymphs. I. ricinus is the largest of the three common species of Ixodes in the British Isles (the other two being I.canisuga, the "British dog tick", and I. trianguliceps, the "vole tick"). Adult males are 2.4--2.8 millimetres (0.09--0.11 in) long, and unfed nymphs are 1.3--1.5 mm (0.05--0.06 in) long; females are 3.0--3.6 mm (0.12--0.14 in) long before feeding and 11 millimetres (0.43 in) long when engorged)