The 35th Insect Fear Film Festival will focus on a creature that is important for humans to understand but that is not actually an insect at all.

Ticks are arachnids, a class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions and ticks’ closest relative, mites. As such, full-grown ticks have eight legs rather than the six legs of insects, and no antennae. They may engender more fear than most insects, though. Ticks are best-known as vectors for Lyme disease.