Can anyone identify this insect please ?

[EuroTrotters]

Sorry, it’s hard to photograph. It’s a mm or so difficult.

 

[Simon Meadwell]

Looks like a tick

 

[DumfriesDik]

Last picture looks like it has wings.
So a fly?

 

[SpeedyDux]

If those are legs not wings it might be a flea.

 

[JJ]

It looks like one of my (non paying) tenants who share my van with me...


JJ

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[Janine]

My guess would be a flea. They have a flattened body side-to-side to aid them crawling between hair follicles.

 

[Hirsch]

Doesn't look like a flea to me.

 

[Spriddler]

Seems to have wings, so a fly or midge?

 

[Grianan]

Not a tick - one you’ve seen one you’ll always recognise them with a shudder- and they are very difficult to kill.
Looks more like a flea to me.

 

[Janine]

Not a tick - one you’ve seen one you’ll always recognise them with a shudder- and they are very difficult to kill.
Looks more like a flea to me.

My cockhead spaniel is a tick magnet - he even brought a 'friend' home from Wales a couple of weeks ago.

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Then it's a case of putting the tick inside a wad of kitchen roll and squishing it between your finger nails. Very satisfying.

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[Augusta08]

Eric! Is that you?

 

[CazPaul]

Is it on your Motorhome bonnet?

 

[Grianan]

My cockhead spaniel is a tick magnet - he even brought a 'friend' home from Wales a couple of weeks ago.

This is the best tool I have found for removing them without leaving the head imbedded in the flesh.

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Then it's a case of putting the tick inside a wad of kitchen roll and squishing it between your finger nails. Very satisfying.

We usually drown them in vodka …

 

[Pusscat]

It’s one of the flies, not a tick or flea.

Looks like it only has one wing and looks like you can just make out a pterostigma , a darkened area on the outside of the wing (not all insect wings have these as visible). Maybe one wing has dropped off or it’s emerged from it’s pupae like that…sometimes the wings fail to fully inflate and the fly drags itself around for a bit then dies, other times it can be a genetic mutation!

First impression is it maybe one of the biting files? You been getting little bites from something?!
I take it it’s dead!

 

[Folkranger]

Don't know what it is but you should do something about the palour of your skin on these photos.

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[rangi]

Oh nooo! Tiz the Hong Kong Dong midge!

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However there is good news ! I too wuz bitten by said insect, and luckily I have a few mlitres of the cure left , in a bottle, in my safe deposit box in the Cook Islands, send me your bank account details so that I can get the postage to send it to you FREE OF CHARGE!!

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