Is chiggers bad this year?

RDrancher · Jul 3, 2014

wroughtn_harv said:
They seem to be only bad for some people here in North Texas. Here I am a man amongst men, tougher than a hand forged nail, and the darn little hussies have been all over me this year. Everyone else gets a pass it seems but I'm not su lucky. I have even given up the sulfur sock for the meanest insect repellent and I'm still getting ate alive.

If you read my post...you're not alone! My bites are gone now, but I'm pretty gun shy and just the sight of a patch of johnson grass gets me itchin all over again. I'm thinking of using hip waders to check out jobs. If it gets hot, at least the little suckers will drown!

RobertBrown · Jul 3, 2014

Years ago chiggers left me with over a 100 bites, at least that's where I stopped counting, that was miserable as it takes a week for them to stop itching, even with treatment.

What I find fascinating is that some people I know have never been affected by chiggers. They spend days in the woods and are either not bitten or the bites have no ill effect.
A friend of mine is an avid hunter, almost 80 years old, from West Virginia. He is always in the woods, all through the summer, has hunted all over the country, mostly in the southeast, and has never had a single chigger bite, or bite wound.
My girlfriend is the same way....completely unaffected by chiggers.
Wish I knew why.......

k0ua · Jul 3, 2014

RobertBrown said:
Years ago chiggers left me with over a 100 bites, at least that's where I stopped counting, that was miserable as it takes a week for them to stop itching, even with treatment.

What I find fascinating is that some people I know have never been affected by chiggers. They spend days in the woods and are either not bitten or the bites have no ill effect.
A friend of mine is an avid hunter, almost 80 years old, from West Virginia. He is always in the woods, all through the summer, has hunted all over the country, mostly in the southeast, and has never had a single chigger bite, or bite wound.
My girlfriend is the same way....completely unaffected by chiggers.
Wish I knew why.......

If you could figure that out, and make some kind of "potion" to duplicate those results you might be a rich man!!!

dmccarty · Jul 4, 2014

k0ua said:
How you fixed for ticks over there Dan?.. we got lots. I could send some!

Thank you for your very kind offer! :thumbsup:

But we will have to politely decline.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

I swear the ticks here are APC(Armored Personal Carriers) for the chiggers.

I have find ticks crawling on me while sitting in the house. They come in with the dog and for some reason come after me. :confused3:

Later,
Dan

k0ua · Jul 4, 2014

dmccarty said:
Thank you for your very kind offer! :thumbsup:

But we will have to politely decline. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I swear the ticks here are APC(Armored Personal Carriers) for the chiggers. I have find ticks crawling on me while sitting in the house. They come in with the dog and for some reason come after me. :confused3:

Later,
Dan

APC's for Chiggers. ha ha, I like that. Yeah every time I mow beneath low hanging limbs I seem to wind up with a tick or two on me. Seems they like to hang around in trees or something.