Chiggers!

They are back!

Should be a bumper crop!

Back with a vengeance - and they're riding on tics.

I got eaten alive by chiggers while camping at Texoma a few weeks ago.

Mosquitoes are back in force too, was hoping the freeze killed them but nope.

Just like my dog she doesn't get flea's I don't get chiggers.

Put a little dab of clear fingernail polish on each one. Thank me later. Also Benadryl cream will relive the itch.

But as an old Texas saying goes, " An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

Scratch them down to the bone for satisfaction and then smear with rubbing alcohol. It will burn so damn bad it will quit itching.

Witchhazel

Napalm!

I normally get eaten up with chiggers but I haven't gotten any yet. I'm thinking our chiggers have drowned.

finger nail polish, does nothing to relieve the discomfort of chiggers....
However, benadryl will help.............

Bifen I/T.
Use a hose end sprayer. Spray the whole area.


Gone.

Sulfur sock.

No chigger problems yet, but the mosquitos are as bad as I have ever seen them. No matter how much Off I use, I still get bitten.

I seen a mosquito today that was so big he could f*** a chicken flat footed.

I heard bleach will kill’em good.

Hot shower and bathe whole body with Nutrigena T Gel shampoo. Do it a couple times.

Finger nail polish doesn't work, tried it several times.








I almost killed myself with bleach. Came in from hunting covered in chiggers, bites all over me from my neck to my ankles. Was told to run a bath tub full of water as hot as I can stand it, and pour a cap full or two of bleach in and soak in it. I was itching so bad a cap full or 2 didn't sound like enough, so I poured close to a half gallon of bleach in and turned on the fart fan. When it hit me it was too late. Tried to stand up but couldn't, everything was spinning and could hardly move my arms & legs. I crawled out of the tub on my belly and finally got the door open, then crawled into the hallway and laid there necked. That's how my wife found me, I could hardly respond to her. She almost called 911, that would have really been embarrassing. Was a pretty stupid thing to do, but I was ate up all over and itching like mad and just wanted to kill the little bass turds.

and no, after all of that the bleach didn't work either.

No chiggers in Wyoming , yeah !

Chiggers do not get under the skin. They bite you and leave. They have an enzyme that they inject when they bite you. It will itch for several days The various treatments to kill them don't work because they are not there. I had bites so bad the Dr knocked me out to keep me from scratching. I was covered in bites from the waist down. Best to keep them off before they can bite and take Benadryl for the itching.

This is correct, and wish I would have known that back then lol.

I always spray my boots and pants legs with Permethrin and then Off on top of it....that has worked really well.

I haven't had chiggers in years............

Red-bugs.

Hate those little red bastards.
But I once got into seed ticks and they were even worse. Itched for about a damn month from em.

My chigger prevention, put about a 1/2 - 1 cup sulphur in an athletic sock, tie it off, dust my waist, ankles, etc., store the sock in a ziplock bag. Works well for me. Hate the scrotum biting bastages!

I was ate up with seed ticks and chiggers. All the bunks were full of them. I never scratched so much in my life.

What I have found works for me is to take a Zyrtec if I know I am going be in taller grass or weeds that have chiggers. I found this out about 3 or 4 yrs ago when I got chiggers on my ankles. I had allergies bad that same day and took a Zyrtec and noticed the chigger bite did not itch anymore. May not work for you but it works great for me.

For ones person-I use Sawyer-
Permethrin on clothing
Picardin lotion on skin

For yard,
garden sprayer with Bifen and Termidors sc is my new go to yard treatment

Worst part is........
You can't get "the real Benadryl" these days.........
Just some kinda hybrid crud............

I know God made all creatures, but he is going to have to explain chiggers, mosquitoes, and fire ants to me when I get to heaven. Skinner is right, if you get them bad you will almost set yourself on fire to get rid of them.
Sulphur is about only thing I have ever found to really deter them.

Easy peasy. To keep us ever vigilant. That means on tour toes, you know?

OMG they used to get me when I was a kid and would traipse all over the farm. Holy crap it would itch so bad for a few days! HORRIBLE

That had to have been bad

With all the rain I think you are right.

I missed an opportunity to get chiggers once...
Family Reunion was planned out at my Late Great Grandparents old farm place out by Blanket... I got sick with a cold a few days before so i did not go, and almost everyone there got chiggers....glad i got sick

Your lucky day.

I have been selling Benadryl since 1976. generic name is Diphenhydramine. It is the same product that has been sold
since 1946.

I don't know what you are buying , but the real stuff is still on the shelf

Mo RPh

Just kill the chiggers. Problem solved.

Also works for mosquito bites, you can get some relief if you take any antihistamine pills.

We have had so much rain at the farm the cows can't even begin to keep up with the grass. It is already 2' tall in places and I can see it being 3' in the next couple of weeks. Prime habitat for chiggers. They don't bother me(knock on wood) but the grand-kids got a few bites.

I have a couple of harmless mud daubers in my house. They are worrying the snot out of me.