This is my first time knowing about chiggers lol I’m sure I’ve been bit before but this year is BAD. Been scouting a lot for youth deer and I’m tore up.
Chiggers have been bad the past few weeks. Thankfully, mine haven't itched at all. Can't say the same for the wife and kids...I need to buy stock in Cortisone10!This is my first time knowing about chiggers lol I’m sure I’ve been bit before but this year is BAD. Been scouting a lot for youth deer and I’m tore up.
You may have seed/turkey tick bites. Like chiggers only worse.
Chigar-rid is your friAre those the tiny red ones? These bites just appear you don’t feel them happen….. then you get a big red spot…. Itch the cr@p out of it….. then it seems to get a small infection that scabs…. Itch some more until 7+ days if goes away.
Are those the tiny red ones? These bites just appear you don’t feel them happen….. then you get a big red spot…. Itch the cr@p out of it….. then it seems to get a small infection that scabs…. Itch some more until 7+ days if goes away.
That sounds exactly like seed/turkey ticks. They are very small and are really juvenile lone star ticks. Hard to see and you can't feel them. When they start hatching out early August they stay together for a while and this is when they are most troublesome, you can get 100s of bites. As time goes by they spread out and you get fewer bites at once but they are everywhere.
The gardener got into a group of them some years back and was miserable.
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Mine are like one bite here one bite there. No patches of bites at all
I can't remember the name, but there is a company that makes a clothing line where they bond permethrin with the cloth. They say it lasts for at least 70 wash cycles before they're like any other piece of clothing.Permethrin keeps them off of me, It's one of those "must have" chemicals to live in the woods.