Keds!!!

[jall55]

Had lots of them on pigeon shot this year
I think they are a relative to the deer ked anyway

 

[devon deer stalker]

Keds, and 2 of them land on me with wings still attached, whilst walking through the woods, felt them crawling up my neck to my hair, bloody difficult things to kill, decapitation works with stalking knife works though

 

[co’den]

I have never heard of Keds. I assume they are blood sucking disease carriers of some sort?

 

[ColinBr]

I liken them to lice

 

[Jon P]

I have never heard of Keds. I assume they are blood sucking disease carriers of some sort?

Lipoptena cervi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[AGR]

Keds, and 2 of them land on me with wings still attached, whilst walking through the woods, felt them crawling up my neck to my hair, bloody difficult things to kill, decapitation works with stalking knife works though

A pale neck looks like a deer's arse to a parasite!
Hope you don't decapitate them whilst they're on your head though!

 

[Bugsy]

Keds, and 2 of them land on me with wings still attached, whilst walking through the woods, felt them crawling up my neck to my hair, bloody difficult things to kill, decapitation works with stalking knife works though

You won’t kill them by trying to squash them between your fingers , you roll them between your fingers .

 

[Ruby Tuesday 2]

A pale neck looks like a deer's arse to a parasite!
Hope you don't decapitate them whilst they're on your head though!

I hate to imagine what my bald head looks like to them then.

 

[WalkedUp]

They pop lovely between your thumbnails. When driving back from a shoot with dead grouse, crows or deer in the car it is a harmless pastime between service stations to see how many keds you can catch trying to latch onto you.

 

[VSS]

They pop lovely between your thumbnails. When driving back from a shoot with dead grouse, crows or deer in the car it is a harmless pastime between service stations to see how many keds you can catch trying to latch onto you.

And then one you've missed crawls across your forehead while you're chatting to the attractive young lady at the till....

 

[devon deer stalker]

You won’t kill them by trying to squash them between your fingers , you roll them between your fingers .

Tried that today....., didn't work, size 9 boot did

 

[cutty sark]

Wee bastards, been bitten on the back of the neck a few times over the years, bite gone itchy and swollen fur a few days, don’t go fur a haircut during the rut.

 

[75]

I was on a video call yesterday afternoon with my potential new boss in the US. I say potential as we're doing a massive merger and roles are not finalised so I was on my very best behaviour.

A tad awkward when a ked appeared on my neck and I started thrashing around trying to a) get the bloody thing off me and then b) kill the it without making a fuss on camera...

 

[Bugsy]

Tried that today....., didn't work, size 9 boot did

death by size 9 .. perfect .. slightly dampen your trigger finger and thumb and roll

 

[Bugsy]

Wee bastards, been bitten on the back of the neck a few times over the years, bite gone itchy and swollen fur a few days, don’t go fur a haircut during the rut.

I’ve never had a bite from one .. but I’m a delicacy for Clegs and by Christ that’s an itch

 

[bogtrotter]

I hate them, i picked another off me today having skinned one yesterday.

What! You skinned a Ked?