What's up my Chigger?

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I ****ing hate chiggers man.

In case you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about these...

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They produce bites like these...

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Seriously, these are the most ****ing annoying pest outside that I encounter. If I go outside on my back porch for a single minute, a couple hours later or a day later I will be covered in these itching red bites.

You can't even see the ****ers unless you're impossibly close. You certainly can't feel them crawling around on your body.

wikipedia said:
After crawling onto their host, they inject digestive enzymes into the skin that break down skin cells. They do not actually "bite," but instead form a hole in the skin called a stylostome and chew up tiny parts of the inner skin, thus causing severe irritation and swelling. The severe itching is accompanied by red pimple-like bumps (papules) or hives and skin rash or lesions on a sun-exposed area. For humans, itching usually occurs after the larvae detach from the skin.
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These ****ers need to be flame thrower fed!
 
Hurrah, another 'I hate insects' thread by Raziaar! Quality stuff.


Those look nasty, how big're they?
 
KineticAesthetic said:
Hurrah, another 'I hate insects' thread by Raziaar! Quality stuff.


Those look nasty, how big're they?
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Another 'I hate insects' thread by Raziaar? What do you mean?

I don't hate insects. I just hate certain insects.

I love insects in general.


They're not big at all... they're almost microscopic. You can't see them unless you're super super close. They just show up as a bunch of insignificantly small red dots.
 
If I go outside on my back porch for a single minute, a couple hours later or a day later I will be covered in these itching red bites.

You can't even see the ****ers unless you're impossibly close.
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You could try pouring extremely hot water buckets all over your deck and deck furniture.

I don't know if it would work, I'm just guessing that boiling water would certainly kill them without leaving toxins from insecticides.

If you tap isn't hot enough, you can heat pots of water on the stove.
 
Ah, chiggers. I used to volunteer outdoors at an arboretum. Every time I had to work in their meadow area, I would get chigger bites all around my waist because I'd forget to spray insect repellent there. I think I had at least 30 bites at one point. These things itch like crazy. I couldn't fall asleep at night because of the itching. Calamine lotion and hydrocortisone didn't help. There's supposed to be a way to kill them by putting nail polish over the bite so they die, but I don't know if that actually works.

Left some marks too since I kept scratching them, although the discoloration went away after several months.
 
dfc05 said:
There's supposed to be a way to kill them by putting nail polish over the bite so they die, but I don't know if that actually works.
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I've read that nail polish remover may make a tick regurgitate it's meal (your blood) back into you, greatly increasing your chances of getting a disease from a tick which is carrying one. In other words, don't.

However, it might work for chiggers. But don't blame dfc05 and I if something goes wrong.
 
That's odd. Me and a friend had coined the term "Chigger" years ago for those absorbed with popular culture and trends.
 
Sweet, was just looking for a thread full of them here.
That'll do.
 
WTF? I've been seeing these little red buggers my entire life and never up until now have I heard that a) they're called chiggers and b) they bite. For me, they've always just been little tiny harmless red bugs that you only notice if you look really hard.
 
They have numerous names.

trombiculid mites (also known as harvest mites, red bugs, trombiculid mites, scrub-itch mites, berry bugs or, in their larval stage, as chiggers or chigoe)
 
I've known them as chiggers since I was a little kid. We had them on the patio then, but I knew that they bite and to avoid them.

Since then, I've only seen them one other time that I remember, it was a few years back at my fathers house, on the porch.

If I spot one, I know to BOLO, or don't sit there.

I'm not aware of being bitten by one.
 
I've seen them but never knew their name or intentions. thanks for the heads up!
 
VirusType2 said:
I've known them as chiggers since I was a little kid. We had them on the patio then, but I knew that they bite and to avoid them.

Since then, I've only seen them one other time that I remember, it was a few years back at my fathers house, on the porch.

If I spot one, I know to BOLO, or don't sit there.

I'm not aware of being bitten by one.
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Dude... I go outside on my back porch with my shoes on for literally ONE minute and then I come in, immediately remove my shoes and brush my feet with my hands and I still end up with tons of them.

I can't avoid them. If I go outside, even if I float in the air like a ghost I'll get dozens of bites from them!
 
They very small, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Scientifically, they get their red coloring from Satan.

:devil:
Raz said:
I can't avoid them.
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Then you know what you must do.

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can't you spray your yard?? insecticide could help you out a lot i bet
 
Warped said:
can't you spray your yard?? insecticide could help you out a lot i bet
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Because I have a pet who goes outside often. I'm not really a believer in spraying insecticide except inside the house if I have a pest problem like ants coming in or something. Or if fire ant mounds are spreading and becoming super numerous.
 
Raziaar said:
Because I have a pet who goes outside often. I'm not really a believer in spraying insecticide except inside the house if I have a pest problem like ants coming in or something. Or if fire ant mounds are spreading and becoming super numerous.
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yeah probably not worth the effort. there probably is a 24 hr bomb you can use in the back yard and just have the dog or cat or tiger that you have ("pet") and have them shit in the front yard. what if the chiggers kill your pet??
 
I've got an idea. Cut off a piece of your flesh and place it in the middle of your yard on a post. Come back the next day to find them all on it, then set it ablaze. A can of spray paint and a lighter should do the trick.

Actually, I wonder how much a blowtorch would set you back. You could just sterilize your porch.
 
I thought this thread would be about an alternative term for the opressed white people to use, so the black man won't get angry when we call him a nig ger.
 
Warped said:
yeah probably not worth the effort. there probably is a 24 hr bomb you can use in the back yard and just have the dog or cat or tiger that you have ("pet") and have them shit in the front yard. what if the chiggers kill your pet??
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They'll be back. It's impossible to kill the buggers off for good.

VirusType2 said:
I've got an idea. Cut off a piece of your flesh and place it in the middle of your yard on a post. Come back the next day to find them all on it, then set it ablaze. A can of spray paint and a lighter should do the trick.

Actually, I wonder how much a blowtorch would set you back. You could just sterilize your porch.
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I'd probably not only find them all on it, but 99 other species of other bugs, including a shitload of fire ants.
 
These misleading bug names annoy and infuriate me.

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