Spiders
Ticks
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In The Island, the diagnostic sensors (which look like a cross between ticks and spiders) crawl into the body via the eyesocket.
Source: Orifice Invasion - You probably won't find pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, mites, tickspiders, sunspiders, or anything other than spiders, scorpions and maybe ticks featured in fiction.
Source: Small Taxonomy Pools - House: In one episode, the title character triumphantly demonstrates a tick that was causing the Case Of The Week; in a close-up, one can clearly see it has six legs, as every insect does... but ticks are arachnids, and, like spiders or scorpions, they have eight legs.
Source: Artistic License Biology
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