please tell/write me that they’re not ticks
i wasn’t able to see clearly at that moment but when i looked at the photo back home, i saw these. Only today we removed 2 ticks and it’s becoming disturbingly regular. If these are ticks on only one dung beetle, we are damned :/

I’m taking a wild guess but I think it’s a large group of beetle mites?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oribatida
Edit: also this:
https://askentomologists.com/2020/09/03/why-are-burying-beetles-covered-in-mites/
thanks for the links