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Ohio State University wrote:Probably no creature on earth can cause as much torment for its size than the tiny chigger. Tiny six-legged chigger larvae attack campers, picnickers, hikers, bird watchers, berry pickers, fishermen, soldiers, and homeowners in low, damp areas where vegetation is rank such as woodlands, berry patches, orchards, along lakes and streams, and even in drier places where vegetation is low such as lawns, golf courses, and parks. They are most numerous in early summer when grass, weeds and other vegetation are heaviest. Chiggers do not burrow into the skin, but insert their mouthparts in a skin pore or hair follicle. Their bites produce small, reddish welts on the skin accompanied by intense itching as irritating as acute cases of poison ivory or poison sumac. These symptoms often are the only way of learning that an outdoor area is infested since chiggers are so small that most cannot be seen without a magnifying glass. Chiggers feed on a wide variety of snakes, turtles, birds, and small mammals as well as humans.

SS-kojak wrote:What are chiggers, at first i thought it was some kinda rascist word.

-Laser- wrote:don't you hate how when somebody mentions something itchy, you start itching?

Darco wrote:i had those a couple weeks ago, the itching lasted over a week. i had an anti hystimine but it didnt help out at all. my arms and ankles were covered with the bites.

jks wrote:Prior to this, I had never even heard of the term "chigger".

llamamastafu wrote:

-Laser- wrote:don't you hate how when somebody mentions something itchy, you start itching?

true, true.. but i've accually had chiggers and they suck big time.

[cc]z@nd! wrote:i've never had chiggers but i've had ticks before (NOT fun) and, once while hiking in the UP in michigan - not just normal UP, mind you, but the backwoods of the backwoods - i was liteally attacked and eaten alive by mosquitos. i'll bet that if you were there, you'd have seen a cloud of them around me. and yes, i was wearing off. i should have taken a can of raid to serve as an anti-air weapon now that i think about it...

edit: which reminds me of a funny story; this girl that goes to my school went on a family vacation or whatever not too long ago to a cabin or something, somewhere where there's bugs. so the girl's mom, obviosuly thinking ahead, started to spray some raid on her to serve as insect repellant. luckily they informed here it was insecticide and not insect repellent before she could spray most of her body with it.