I’ve never seen a chigger, either, but I’ve had millions of chigger bites.
AND the hairspray and makeup kit, too. Then, after everyone else has drunk themselves into a coma, it’s makeover time!
Chiggers are just God’s way of reminding you that you are in Texas.
Growing up exposed to lots of chiggers playing in the woods and unhappily getting them a few times as adults. Chiggerex is the best stuff to get relief and get rid them. http://www.amazon.com/Chiggerex-Plus-Medicated-Ointment-1-75oz/dp/B004KVJBFK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338298229&sr=8-1
To prevent getting them in the first place. Spray “Off” insecticide on your feet and shoes before going into the wild.
Can we just stop with the Ch word.
It’s Chegroes or the much more PC Mited-Americans.
Chiggers deserve more than a pitting. They should be sent back to Satan’s lair. I mean, look at the damn things!
A bit of bleach in a bath and a long soak after your outdoor trip works for me.
I’ve also found that rubbing any kind of alcohol on your skin does the trick. The chiggers drink the alcohol, get drunk and fall off.
Apparently chiggers can’t be boozers.
Boooooo!
Wait, so those cute little red arachnids I see crawling around are actually evil bitey things?
(Or are we talking about the same thing? Because I don’t think those itty bitty red dot-things ever bit me).
Actually, anywhere in the SE United States.
Hey! I used that last time we talked about chiggers! (After I stole it from somewhere else online. :D)
We have chiggers all the way up here, too. Ask me how I know. I don’t get bitten often - just often enough to know that I hate those little fuckers.
If it’s big enough for you to see that it’s an arachnid, it’s probably a red velvet mite or a clover mite. They don’t bite people. Chiggers are too small to see without magnification.
Seriously glad I live far enough north that chiggers aren’t a concern.
Well I learned something today. When I was a kid my dad told me that chiggers were bits of toilet paper that gets stuck to your anus hairs. I believed that till today.
Those are Klingons.
No, Klingons attach to the starboard bow.
I did a web search as I had no idea what a chigger was.
I now wish I hadn’t.
A better perspective for size/apperance Chigger Sometimes people confuse them with aphids
Nail polish always works like a charm for me. That liquid bandage stuff is second best. (Probably a better choice for gamer’s hunting pack though!)
Them things are horrid. And the bites are incredibly itchy. Just be glad that you have only met chiggers online, that’s all I can say.
If it were not for chiggers, there would be far fewer atheists in Texas.