Blood sucking ticks on the beach. - Biodiversity Shorts #1

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I was surprised to find twenty or so ticks on our dog while we were on holiday at the beach. Fortunately we got them off easily, I saved a couple which made great macro subjects.
I 'simulate' a tick jumping onto dog and then get some even closer shots of various tick body parts. A ticks mouth is absolutely amazing.
We checked ourselves as well, luckily they prefer dogs.
Shot with a 50mm Minolta MD macro lens and custom built lighting.
Music: Horses to Water by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (Liszt)
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[@BeWareOFtheGozer]

Just came over from the RCHacker side of things, and I find this incredibly interesting! Ecuador seems like an amazing place for studying biodiversity.

[@johnetches9741]

Cruel? Nontoxic glue? Did you let it go to wander about after your filming? Please tell me you were joking.……

[@theGreaterAwareness]

The orange mouth piece looks almost like a Radula. Great setup. The non-toxic glue and the hypodermic needle are both great ideas as I have NEVER seen such footage where you can really get a good look at he movement constraints of all the different joints.

[@Covertlybound]

I like your videos, because they are certainly unique. thank you for the content.

[@nathanielhartley4764]

Howd this channel never blow up

[@biodiversityshorts]

It will get there.

[@TimGarlickUK]

Really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to many more.
Sorry I don't have much knowledge about ticks either, but gonna go and do some research...

[@biodiversityshorts]

Thanks, your welcome Tim.

[@NickMirro]

Absolutely marvelous! Great narration :-)

[@biodiversityshorts]

Thanks!

[@TheUnDeRGRouNDHoBo]

awesome macro setup pretty amazing view of a tick
bloody horrible things though

[@biodiversityshorts]

TheUnDeRGRouNDHoBo Thats a tick nymph, once it has its fill from an insect it moults, gets bigger then moves on to bigger hosts.

[@ItsLRivera]

My kids love this kind of stuff I have a 3&5 year old and there always interested in this kind of stuff.

[@biodiversityshorts]

Wow, I had no idea kids would love this kind of thing. I hope its not too scary for them, I will endeavour to keep it all PG.

[@payang4166]

Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwww NASTY

[@droneAER]

great story & production Marc.

[@biodiversityshorts]

Thanks Mike.

[@SimoneFabris]

Really, really nice.

[@biodiversityshorts]

Thanks.