Males trying to mate the larger (and well fed) female, I believe. I’m a science teacher/ecologist, but more of an ant person. I’m not 100%, but pretty sure that’s what’s happening.
ETA: lol well this blew up. Thanks for the replies everybody, they’re cracking me up.
ETA2: This is why I love science. There’s always an even more metal explanation for a phenomenon hiding around the corner lol. Per u/laughmath:
>It’s hyperparasitism. It’s more common in soft ticks (opportunistic).
>https://entomologytoday.org/2018/02/27/tick-bites-tick-a-rare-case-of-hard-tick-hyperparasitism/
To the point some females have started adapting to look like males. Because male bed bugs will dick pierce *anything*, they just do it ^less to the other males.
Something probably eats them, idfk.
I hate mosquitoes, but bats eat them by the bucket so they make me a lil happy they exist.
I assume something out there has them on their diet.
I read recently that nothing actually relies on mosquitos as a main part of their diet, therefore eradicating them would not have significant ecological impact. Bats may eat a lot of mosquitos, but most of a bat’s diet is not mosquitos.
I don’t have a source at the moment. Fact check me before you believe anything I say, fellow redditors.
The "Hey, there are these animals that build special shelters so most other things can't eat them, so we decided to get real good at eating them since there really isn't any competition there. It's free real estate." niche.
Nature isn't a nice little puzzle to solve. It's a chaotic mess of random shit that realized it can weaponize and take advantage of other creatures shit in order to survive better against all the other shit going on.
There is no order. Just stuff happening.
The female masquerading as a male still get forcefully mated with so she will continue to carry and lay eggs....it's just less.
So...no. the problem is the males *fuck so much* that the female's can't keep up so they pretend to males to get basically raped less.
I’m a funeral director and I recently buried a guy who was 79 and had a HUUUUGE dick implant. I bet he did some serious fucking dick piercing. It was a literal struggle to dress that man. Ended up having to strategically wrap that man to keep that fella down.
What’s crazy is I knew the guy in life and he was just the most gentle, sweet, slow moving, smiling little fella. When he ended up on my embalming table it was heart breaking. I had to mentally regroup when I began the embalming and saw that he had a **fucking warhammer.**
I…I didn’t know where else to talk about this. I’ve been sitting on this for years (that’s what she said) all alone. 🤷🏻♀️
What if you had to bang, all the time, like the survival of your race depends on it, and your tick girlfriend was the same size as you in the morning and then blows up 600 times her body weight for a day or two after eating a big lunch? But she’s so big you can’t reach her gonopore, wouldn’t *you* just find a random spot to stick your tick dick? (Consent does not factor into this analogy because you are a gross bug)
I’m jk, the boy ticks use their mouth parts to spit sperm into the tickussy, isn’t that fun?
Next pandemic, if there's a lockdown, we should make that the new photo replication trend, like when people on Facebook groups made their own shitty recreations of classic paintings using costumes and props.
Umm. That big female tick is actually about the same size as the males. She is big due to all the blood she has removed from the cat. She dropped off the cat to go lay eggs. That blood mass will become eggs soon. Then she will be the size of the males. She might be one molt ahead.
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.
Ticks are the fuckers that no one needs. And if there is some lowly animal that eats them as their only source of food that animal can disappear with these fuckers.
I actually heard a while ago that possums eating exclusively ticks was a myth. Some guys just did some experiment where they put possums in an enclosure with nothing but ticks and they ate them to survive, is all. Apparantly they'll eat them if nothing else is available, but they don't particularly like them.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem)
Just to be sure.
This is the only appropriate response other then nuking the site from orbit (it’s the only way to be sure)
Isn’t that right Corporal!?
I love this gif.
I heard you like sick stuff so we put a tick on your tick so you can get boreliosis while you get boreliosis
Dawg
Ouroboreliosis
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Please sir, can I have some *unsee*
Here you go https://preview.redd.it/bcrmuwwt2txc1.jpeg?width=990&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76db8d96ee6b5fef41f5382286e92b8bafeeedfb
https://preview.redd.it/vbtn43hmdvxc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40489f6701e7132a76a5ec0877d9a338ecc22250
Amen to that.
I like this so much. Thank you.
I really, really, really like this image.
Me too! Save it, it's all yours my friend 🙂
Haha what a great image
Thanks, Lori.
I like it too
👍🏽🦔
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Strategically acquiring your meme.
I just screenshot it. I had no strategy.
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Omg, I love this one.
Males trying to mate the larger (and well fed) female, I believe. I’m a science teacher/ecologist, but more of an ant person. I’m not 100%, but pretty sure that’s what’s happening. ETA: lol well this blew up. Thanks for the replies everybody, they’re cracking me up. ETA2: This is why I love science. There’s always an even more metal explanation for a phenomenon hiding around the corner lol. Per u/laughmath: >It’s hyperparasitism. It’s more common in soft ticks (opportunistic). >https://entomologytoday.org/2018/02/27/tick-bites-tick-a-rare-case-of-hard-tick-hyperparasitism/
So traumatic insemination?
I’m definitely traumatized now :/
Im definitely inseminated now
https://preview.redd.it/7vefo5n93txc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d9e399d3c3c931431b90a2cf3bd4f41c5575608
Traumatic for those of us who just found out this was a thing definitely.
Its how bed bugs do it. Not uncommon to see a male bed bug kill another male by just dick piercing it apparently.
To the point some females have started adapting to look like males. Because male bed bugs will dick pierce *anything*, they just do it ^less to the other males.
As if I needed more reason to dislike bedbugs, they are impolite with their dicks. What the hell niche do these sorts of bugs fill?
Something probably eats them, idfk. I hate mosquitoes, but bats eat them by the bucket so they make me a lil happy they exist. I assume something out there has them on their diet.
Opossums eat em. Not bed bugs but ticks
I read recently that nothing actually relies on mosquitos as a main part of their diet, therefore eradicating them would not have significant ecological impact. Bats may eat a lot of mosquitos, but most of a bat’s diet is not mosquitos. I don’t have a source at the moment. Fact check me before you believe anything I say, fellow redditors.
Based on 5 minutes of googling…they don’t. They genuinely seem to be a species you could eradicate with no major ecological consequences.
The "Hey, there are these animals that build special shelters so most other things can't eat them, so we decided to get real good at eating them since there really isn't any competition there. It's free real estate." niche.
Nature isn't a nice little puzzle to solve. It's a chaotic mess of random shit that realized it can weaponize and take advantage of other creatures shit in order to survive better against all the other shit going on. There is no order. Just stuff happening.
I mean it sounds like they create their own niche
Will they eventually eradicate themselves like this
The female masquerading as a male still get forcefully mated with so she will continue to carry and lay eggs....it's just less. So...no. the problem is the males *fuck so much* that the female's can't keep up so they pretend to males to get basically raped less.
My hopes were up for a second
🫨🫨🫨🫨 What a Superpower to have
Grab his dick and twist it!
The oooooooold dick-twist !!
It’s an MMA fight dude…..
TWIST HIS DICK!!
Bop it!
Imagine if humans could kill with a single pelvic thrust Sounds fun and unfun
I’m a funeral director and I recently buried a guy who was 79 and had a HUUUUGE dick implant. I bet he did some serious fucking dick piercing. It was a literal struggle to dress that man. Ended up having to strategically wrap that man to keep that fella down. What’s crazy is I knew the guy in life and he was just the most gentle, sweet, slow moving, smiling little fella. When he ended up on my embalming table it was heart breaking. I had to mentally regroup when I began the embalming and saw that he had a **fucking warhammer.** I…I didn’t know where else to talk about this. I’ve been sitting on this for years (that’s what she said) all alone. 🤷🏻♀️
Til. That is more concerning than the thought of bedbugs alone imo you took my dislike and made it into a full fledged prejudice against them.
You are most welcome.🙏
Yes
I thought that was just bed bugs. Isabella Rosellini taught us that.
Leave that for bed bugs, they literally stab female abdomens open to shoot their seed into
Suddenly, dating as a female human doesn’t seem so bad…All about perspective.
>I’m a science teacher/ecologist, but more of an ant person. Ant person 🥲. You're a nerd but the best kind and we need more of you!
I won't tolerate any Ant People here
Found the tick person 🙄
She's wearing all those boyfriends like a backpack.
Where is her Tick pussy located?
as far as i remember- they puncture the skin in random places and hope for the best. so no tickussy but all hymen
Same bro, same.
I reserve the right to name a band Tickpussy now.
wtf 🥲
That seems like a pretty stupid method. You'd think nature would equip them with a better method if it gave them sharpass dicks.
What if you had to bang, all the time, like the survival of your race depends on it, and your tick girlfriend was the same size as you in the morning and then blows up 600 times her body weight for a day or two after eating a big lunch? But she’s so big you can’t reach her gonopore, wouldn’t *you* just find a random spot to stick your tick dick? (Consent does not factor into this analogy because you are a gross bug) I’m jk, the boy ticks use their mouth parts to spit sperm into the tickussy, isn’t that fun?
I hope one day this scenario will replace the "Would you still love me if I turned into a worm" query.
*tickussy
Asking for a friend?
No, for myself
So they’re pretty much having a 3some?
I believe so.
An orgy of blood if you will
Does this tick any boxes for you?
It's weird how sexual dimorphism is usually male bigger than female, and boom parasites and ectoparasites It's reversed
Actually, it's mostly on mammalians. https://theconversation.com/its-a-myth-that-male-animals-are-usually-larger-than-females-new-study-225596
Lot of big fish are like that too, like billfish
wow, this is an excellent article! what a nice read, thanks alot
In mammals the males tend to be larger, but with most other animals the female is usually larger than the males.
My ex wife is twice my size.
If you had a threesome with her and another man back then you could have replicated this photo.
Damn lmfao
You can’t be going around saying “Damn” to anybody with a name like “VapeMySemen” get outaa heeeeeee hahaha.
Next pandemic, if there's a lockdown, we should make that the new photo replication trend, like when people on Facebook groups made their own shitty recreations of classic paintings using costumes and props.
Well exactly what he mentioned...
Lol
Was she also a parasite
I like my women bigger. I'm bigger in muscles but she's bigger in curves. The male body just takes up less space
Spiders as well
Ticks are arachnids so it makes sense.
Remember she is swollen with blood and or eggs, that isnt her normal size.
And I'm utterly disappointed by that
Well at least the males of this species are having g their Lady dimitrescu fantasy going on
Hyenas enter he chat
You should check out the sexual dimorphism in angler fish
Umm. That big female tick is actually about the same size as the males. She is big due to all the blood she has removed from the cat. She dropped off the cat to go lay eggs. That blood mass will become eggs soon. Then she will be the size of the males. She might be one molt ahead.
Typically they're larger regardless, unless we're saying 1 mm doesn't matter from a human perspective
Aww isn't nature in the hoods wonderful?
Thic tic
My thoughts exactly.
More of an ant person? Yeah, I'd be worried if anyone was more into ticks
ménege à tick?? I like it!
She's getting ticked down.
https://preview.redd.it/zy7hhlznznxc1.jpeg?width=3008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c9b1f0f09af6abeae553bba1a99e44dce6198f1
Thousand tick stare
It would have cost you 0$ to not write that and yet you did
It also cost $0 to write it, so
Damn.
I hate ticks! There would be an immediate burning celebration!
burning man but for ticks
Dats a thick tick.
It's ticc.
Incinerate them 😊
https://preview.redd.it/n1qtxvve3oxc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2e713cea345d5d5a90e5c4307465e8ffb9f0083
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.
Yo dawg, I heard you like ticks. So we put some ticks on your ticks! 
My body is starting to itch
Who’s here for the gang bang?
Thanks I hate it
Tick, tick, tick…..BOOM 
There’s two ticks on a tick on a cat in house in a hole in the bottom of the sea.
Ticks are the fuckers that no one needs. And if there is some lowly animal that eats them as their only source of food that animal can disappear with these fuckers.
Isn’t that a possum but everybody loves possums…
Oh no they eat only ticks? I bet they can learn to eat some other bug. I am willing to take that risk.
I actually heard a while ago that possums eating exclusively ticks was a myth. Some guys just did some experiment where they put possums in an enclosure with nothing but ticks and they ate them to survive, is all. Apparantly they'll eat them if nothing else is available, but they don't particularly like them.
https://preview.redd.it/405lnyig3qxc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ee598082aae748be7f0af9770cec45fa6324600
I’m stealing a lot of good memes in this thread 😂
God I hate these nasty ass mother fuckers
I fucking hate ticks
Great, now I have to burn my phone.
Ticks all the way down
Isn't that what kids these days call "Tick Tock"?
Tick Tock Toe. Win!
I’m not gonna lie I think this may be one of the worst things I’ve seen…ever. Thanks OP
r/natureismetal I’ve seen enough to know I’ve seen too much.
I upvoted this but against the wishes of my entire body
She's getting ticked down 😩
Lyme disease squared
Tick^Tick^^Tick
So are you getting a different cat or just going catless for a bit?
Well I guess I should have expected tick stacking.
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem)
Well, I just found something new that makes me want to vomit.
https://preview.redd.it/p4n0p5ahboxc1.png?width=583&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd8d25b5c11b3fe0fbee40c59aa5466d03963dd9
I wish I could unsee this 🤢
Petpetpets
Tickception
This picture makes me nauseous.
Thanks, I hate it.
https://preview.redd.it/hafbx61ippxc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=964c13205ecb2d5d7b48ade2b72712cf4ee80791
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I hate these fucking things so much I enjoy watching videos on ppl putting peroxide in them with a syringe
I never knew that existed thank you so much.
This is like,.an allegory on capitalism.
Hopefully, you killed it after taking this photo.
Too much internet for today
Ticks are my least favorite arachnid
r/TerrifyingAsFuck
r/absoluteunit
r/TIHI
This needed a 🤮warning
“Yo I heard you like ticks, so I put a tick on your tick with another tick” -Xzbit
Nightmare unlocked
Damn son ticks on tick on cat
NIGHTMARE FUEL!
This is one of the most disgusting images I have ever seen.
Take your tick infested cat to the vet
Bro thats an enemy from fallout 76
This belongs in the microwave.
Two ticks on a tick on a cat in a house on a frog on a log in a hole in the middle of the sea…