Chiggers

[sbbow]

Like these lol


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[SteelerFan]

^^^^ That's what the nice ones look like!

[Gobbler428]

If you really want a good dose of chiggers, just sit down in pine straw right after a good rain. They love wet pine straw.

[spaightlabs]

I thought I had got into a bunch of chiggers, turned out to be lonestar tick larve. That's how I became allergic to all red meat. Over 4 years ago.

Man, I'm sorry to hear that.

Without a doubt I would be dead if I couldn't eat red meat.

[LaLongbeard]

Permethrin works as well on chiggers as ticks. They are horrible in the summer here but a dose of permethrin and never a bite

[Gooserbat]

I don't know everything about them but I've had a lot of experience with them.  Worst little things I know of.

A method of treatment that works well and is affordable is to take a regular 16 oz sized bottle of the green menthol rubbing alcohol.  Then take 50 ( yes 50) regular 325 mg plain aspirin and dissolve in the alcohol.  Rub it on the bites. 

Same concoction works on poison ivy, tick bites, and chiggers.

[Cut N Run]

They look just like miniature ticks.  I hate 'em.  I'm a chigger magnet too.  About 30 years ago, I walked the edges of an over-grown airstrip and got over 250 bites on each leg. They especially like to gather at leg and waistbands of underwear.

Like LaLongbeard said, Permethrin works.  It not only repels them, it kills them.  I carry a roll of paper towels and a bottle of rubbing alcohol in the truck in case I get into some chiggers. If you can wipe your legs down with alcohol before they bite, it kills them and gets them off you in a hurry.

Jim

[Sasha and Abby]

PREVENTION is the best medicine -permethian or OFF spray to ward them off.  For you hardheads that get tore up, Tea Tree Oil is the ONLY thing I have ever found that will mitigate a bite from a 20 day ordeal down to a 2 day bother...

[Clydetaylor1]

Like these lol

That looks about right.
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[roberthyman14]

If you really want a good dose of chiggers, just sit down in pine straw right after a good rain. They love wet pine straw.

Almost as bad as moss in oaks trees here in the south

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[Cottonmouth]

Believe it or not I've never been bitten by them. I'm in central MS and when we were kids, we would pick blackberries in the summer and my brother would get hammered by them. I must have some bad blood or something they don't like. Whatever it is, I'm glad I got it.

[bbcoach]

Believe it or not I've never been bitten by them. I'm in central MS and when we were kids, we would pick blackberries in the summer and my brother would get hammered by them. I must have some bad blood or something they don't like. Whatever it is, I'm glad I got it.

I hope you never get them but you know what happens when you say NEVER.

[Cottonmouth]

Believe it or not I've never been bitten by them. I'm in central MS and when we were kids, we would pick blackberries in the summer and my brother would get hammered by them. I must have some bad blood or something they don't like. Whatever it is, I'm glad I got it.

I hope you never get them but you know what happens when you say NEVER.

Yeah I'm probably asking for it.

[DumpTruckTurkey]

Never seen them but they make you very uncomfortable for a week or two.  Permethrin on your clothes will keep you from getting those nasty red bites.  They are chiggers and in some parts of the country they are called No See Em's, so they must be very small.

Chiggers are horrible, my gf got them for the 1st time last year and was freaking out about to go to the doc lol.

NoSeeUms are flying mosqiuoto like biting bugs that kind of hurt and itch... they are clear/orange color and while the also are horrible, they are nothing compared to chiggers.

[Tunaguy]

Last year I had bites that lasted over a month. I hate em'!