chiggers!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr.Jody]

I see everyone forgot to metion these little suckers !!?....

[tulecanyon]

my brother lives in ala. i rarely leave the southwest. i go visit a few years ago...

oh, go take a walk in the woods if you want to do something today...
i get back to his house to take a shower see i am covered in ticks and chiggers...not one word about those beasties until i am broken out in little red spots.

so my sister in law...the wonderful and caring person she is...takes a bottle of fire engine red nail polish and applies the substance to the chigger's , made me look like an escapee from some hippie commune...

clear nail polish does work.

[Mr.Jody]

LMAO....... yep, itchy itchy itchy...

[EX2user]

Two years ago I went detecting in July. It was on a farm that the grass was freshly cut. It was there that I met earth's ugly critter known as the chigger. I truly believe that I had the whole family including grampa camping out on my rear. For those that have had them know what it was like. The only relief that would work for me was to put a packet of Aveno Oatmeal bath in hot bath water and soak in it till cool. It soothe the wounds. I highly recommend it.

[hollowpointred]

o god i friggin hate chiggers! i haven't gotten into them in a year or two but i have in the past. chiggers are a misery reserved for the deepest regions of hell!!!!..did i mention i hate chiggers!

[aa battery]

we aint got those here what are they?

[tulecanyon]

tiny little beast that burros under your skin and drinks your blood.
they need to breath, so you cover the wound, tiny red dot, with some substance that will stay put an suffocate the little beast.

talk about an itch that no amount of scratching will cure.

[aa battery]

tiny little beast that burros under your skin and drinks your blood.
they need to breath, so you cover the wound, tiny red dot, with some substance that will stay put an suffocate the little beast.

talk about an itch that no amount of scratching will cure.

oh he!! no

[Mr.Jody]

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/001333.htm
here you go for those that dont know what we got out in the woods down in the south....lmao

[miamidave]

heres a trick
when Im going to hunt grassy / buggy areas I stop at wallmart and pick up a pack of cheap flea&tick collars
they come 2 in a box for about 1.78 I put 1 around each boot and I havent brought any critters home since Ive been doing this

[pcolaboy]

Chiggers and Noseeums are aweful over here right now in many places around Pensacola, but luckily the yellow flies haven't been too bad this year.

[SwampHunter]

The chigger larvae will eat the skin and not suck the blood. Once you start itching the chigger is long gone. There is nothing that you can do to make the chigger go away since the chigger is no longer on you when the red mark shows up and the itching starts.
We used to try to kill the chigger by applying toothpaste, nail polish or whatever to cut of the oxygen to them, but it doesn't work. The only thing that works is riding out the "bite" mark. You can use all sorts of stuff to relieve the itching, but nothing gets rid of the chigger since he is not there anymore.

[Mr.Jody]

From what I can tell, the chiggers head actually bury's into the skin, the body falls off and dies, its the head thats in the skin,producing larva,and once it does what it does, it dies too...Thats what I read.
I wouldnt wish these suckers on my worse enemy !

[SwampHunter]

One thing is for sure.... they are the worst. I can deal with ticks, but I can't stand chiggers. This is the reason we wait until winter to hunt the woods and grasslands.

[Mr.Jody]

Yea, had I only known.....

[Ray S ECenFL]

I can relate to the chigger itch. Also known as red bugs. Went back pack camping some years ago with my son and the Boy Scouts. Came home with chigger bites where chiggers had no business being. Worst itch and worst experience I can remember in a long time. Tried all the remidies including oatmeal baths, nail polish, over the counter product calle chrig rid, etc... They all helped to a small degree, but had to ride it out. Milk, applied to the bites, also helped with the itch.

Not something I want to experience again.

Ray S

[Bum Luck]

Permanone.

I'm a surveyor, and hate biting bugs.

This stuff applied to clothing actually kills the little buggers in short order. Ticks just fall off your pants before they get to the knees, and mosquitoes don't bite. They land, sit there for a bit, take off, and fly away, lower and lower..................

I always thought that prisoners should be sprayed up with this stuff and spend the day in the swamp, killing bugs that land on them.

One nice thing is that it lasts for about a week on your clothes.

[sniffer]

why don't you take a preventive method??
I use insect repellent, sprayed from my waist down.
no chiggers, no ticks. everythings good

[Mr.Jody]

Hell, had I known, I would have done something.I cant even remember the last time I heard of a chigger.Now Its cold, I dont worry about it.But one thing for sure, this summer,I will be ready for war when I hit the woods....

[Molly.]

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