Bad photo but of the two choices, I'm going with tick. Better images are required to confirm that it's a tick and not a tick-shaped insect, which is quite possible.

And if the clearer pix had something showing the scale to determine size even better.

tj

Hard to tell. It's ticked shaped but looks like it's fluffy or has wings or someting, and ticks don't have that. Not too sure about those loop looking bits at the pointy end either. Almost like a tiny feather? Getting poked with a tiny feather can feel like a bite.

Ticks are pretty good at biting without being noticed, too. (And nobody catches bedbugs in the act!)

The overall situation seems more like an innocent non-bloodsucking critter accidentally stuck in pants biting out of fear.

If it feels irritated or itchy, Benadryl is the answer. :)

The forward two pairs of tick's legs tend to loop around and that is consistent with your image.

Ticks have 8 legs.

Bedbugs have 6 legs.

Were you outdoors in a natural area or around animals not long before this?

@User I was outside in the yard and woods yesterday afternoon. But cant understand why nothing happened yesterday?

Ticks front legs do curl, but those almost seem too perfect, lol. And they tend to to that more once dead- otherwise they are wiggling around. JG didn't mention it was a moving thing.

And sometimes those little #$%$^&$'s seem to lurk on you- or around you. Take their time to get to their sweet spot before digging in. Ugh. It does make them easier to pull off during tick checks, but they can pop up later.

Did you do a full check yesterday? Or bathe and fresh clothes after you were out yesterday? If not, it might have just been lurking around. And your showering and changing today triggered it to latch on. Perhaps washed off your scalp or higher up and it caught on around your knee.

Tick season is open, so your doctor was right to err on the side of caution. This time of year till full winter we have ticks. Which reminds me, I need to put out the tick laundry bin :)

It was a moving thing and had to use a tweezer to pull it out.

Tweezers?? Oh. Yeah. Tick.

Fun tip for the next one: save the corpse until you can get good photos of it so it can be identified. Then you know what diseases it potentially has.

ew ew ew ew. Not a fan of ticks at all....

Yeah no. That was a critical bit.. It was moving and needed tweezers. Explains the curling and fluffy- you must have smushed it good.

You had a lurker, for whatever reason. You may or may not have noticed the original bite- but if it wasn't already latched on, your bathing and dressing aciivy made it do so- and the bite might have been because it's in the crease of your knee and the additional irritation caused it to dig in.

Ticks are foul. My love had one last year. Did the check, bathed, fresh clothes. And still got a nymph on the chest that a day later was dug in and the bite... and scratch at the spot... and then bleep, tick? Yep. Probably the worst one in a decade of livng out here. But it can happen.

I have pulled these off of me and some were under my skin burrowing in so tiny it went in through a pore and I could see a line where it was tunneling in and also pulled out a tiny moth from the research I've done the larva and nymphs burrow in for the tick nymphs soak in salt it causes them to fall apart killing the nymphs and larva and for the moths use lavender soaps not sure if it kills them but it keeps them away from you like a repellent they don't like it but the moths will irritate you your skin will have a tiny spot on it and under your skin back away from the irritated spot will be a bump under your skin that is what you need to get out or it will spread

While the bath works, I find the best way to keep them off of you is insect repellent. Don't be afraid to apply it ALL over your body. As said above some have stealth capabilities and you don't see them until the following day when they start biting.

The repellent should be applied before you go out and the bath and inspection when you are done for the day. It is good to have some one like your wife inspect you ALL over.