Chiggers

[RUGER]

I lost the article that BSK posted years ago but here is another one.
Just thought it might help some people understand chiggers and it will explain why alot of "remedies" don't work.


http://www.medicinenet.com/chiggers_bites/page3.htm

 

[BSK]

As much as everyone seems to freak out over ticks, it is the lowly chigger that drives me to distraction. I hate, hate, HATE those things!!! Over the years, I've used enough insecticide on my clothing to probably grow a third arm, but it has been worth it to keep my close and personal contact with these little demons from Hell to a minimum.

I still get 'em, but in numbers like 5 or 6 at a time instead of 100+ at a time.

 

[Mike Belt]

I hate those little boogers but I hate seed ticks even worse...including the 261 I have on me now.

 

[DaveB]

I was goose hunting my first winter in Memphis. I had crossed the river and was in Arkansas in a laydown blind.

I got up to get a honker and looked down as I got up. Had so many chiggers my bootlaces were moving. Triggers some kind of auto-response like lighting your clothes on fire or jumping into deep water. There were ticks down my back.

Once I got them all off I had a weeks worth of dreams where every chigger in Arkansas came to eat me. Awful.

 

[Deer Assassin]

seed ticks are worse IMO

 

[Shed Hunter]

I hate those little boogers but I hate seed ticks even worse...including the 261 I have on me now.

Yep. And I cannot keep them off of me. I can spray down and still get loaded.

 

[dsa5455]

There use to be a chigger guard you could buy at Wal-mart that would help with them. It was an elastic sock type of thing that would stretch and fit over your boots and bottom of your pants. It was great for keeping your shoe laces tight so that when you walked through the thick vegetation they wouldn't get untied. I had three pairs of them but they have all lost their stretch and no longer work. Wish I could find them again because they seem to work pretty good. Haven't seen them in many years.

 

[Hunter 257W]

The secret is to stay out of the woods until a good stout frost.

 

[gator-n-buck]

The old nail polish trick... I have even used it, I guess it didn't work but it sure made my legs look pretty...

Good story about chiggers and colored nail polish. My dad and his hunting buddy was invited to play golf from another guy at work.

My dad's hunting buddy decided to wear blue jeans to the golf course to cover up his nicely pink painted legs.

Well... When they arrived at this nice golf course, my dad's buddy was informed that you couldn't wear jeans on the golf course. No problem, he would just buy pants at the golf shop.
Wrong... Didn't have a pair that was close to his size, so he had to settle for shorts....

I heard there were a few smiles at the golf course that day...

 

[rem270]

I don't remember the last time i DIDN'T have a chigger on me lol. Since June i have kept at least one on me at all times

Between them and poison ivy, which i've never had til this year, i am struggling :grin:

 

[k-i-d-d]

I've been hunting in Kentucky for many years now and it only took one time of getting chiggers, seed ticks, or turkey mites for me!! none are any fun.

Since then I've been using the Gordon's Permethrin-10 Livestock and Premise spray (you can get it at Tractor Supply for around $8 ) instead of buying sprays like Permanone or Sawyers (which will also do the trick) has been just as effective and saves some dollars. These sprays use a .5% concentration of Permethrin.

To dilute the permethrin concentration from 10% to .5% you need to mix 19 parts water to 1 part of permethrin concentration. I just use 1.5 ounces of concentration and 28.5 ounces of water. This comes out to 30 ounces of pure tick and chigger kryptonite!!

with an initial price of only $12 after tax vs $16 after tax for 24 ounces of Sawyers at (let's say) Bass Pro.
Also you can use this same formula to refill it 4 more times, so that's 5 total bottles (or 150 ounces) for the same $12 vs $100 for the Sawyers equivalent.
Tractor Supply also sells a 32 ounce solution for $20 if you want to make gallons for heavy use.

Just remember that this spray is only to be used on external clothing/equipment and not to be applied directly to the skin. Enjoy

 

[74MOPAR]

Got a real good case of the itch and scratch Sunday moving a stand. My son hardly ever gets them

 

[Timber Ghost]

There use to be a chigger guard you could buy at Wal-mart that would help with them. It was an elastic sock type of thing that would stretch and fit over your boots and bottom of your pants. It was great for keeping your shoe laces tight so that when you walked through the thick vegetation they wouldn't get untied. I had three pairs of them but they have all lost their stretch and no longer work. Wish I could find them again because they seem to work pretty good. Haven't seen them in many years.

I bought 6 prs of those when they came out, 3 for me and 3 for my buddy, we each have 1 pr left. These are very effective and I wish we could find them again. I always look, but I think they only had them for 1 yr.

 

[Realtree]

A old guy told me to spray pants down with windex and the ammonia keeps ticks and chiggers off.

 

[WGK]

I had about 50 or so on me a few weeks ago. Woke me up at night itching. They are little Demons from Hell.

 

[feathersandfur2214]

I drink about a tablespoon of vinegar a day (either straight vinegar or pickle juice). Keeps ticks and chiggers off.

 

[catman529]

Chiggers and ticks are the worst bugs in Tennessee I am convinced. Horse flies are a real pain and mosquitoes are aggravating but it's the chiggers and ticks that leave me itching all over for over a week. I only get a bite here and there anymore since I started using permethrin. I especially am careful this time of year since seed ticks are hatching. If left unnoticed, seed ticks are worse than chiggers.

 

[redblood]

they evidently don't affect me because I lie in the woods in august and September squirrel hunting, don't own a thermacell, and never use spray.

 

[catman529]

they evidently don't affect me because I lie in the woods in august and September squirrel hunting, don't own a thermacell, and never use spray.

lucky they don't make you itch

 

[Mike Belt]

I can get over chiggers in a week. Seed ticks are still itching a month later.

 

[k-i-d-d]

Timber Ghost... not sure if your referring to these but I have a couple pair and they work well...

Tick Gators

 

[keystonecop]

Permethrin That's all you need Spray down your pants legs and boots with this stuff and no more chiggers or ticks. This stuff works and is what I use to keep the little boogers (trying to be nice) away.

 

[BSK]

I can get over chiggers in a week. Seed ticks are still itching a month later.

There are about 10,000 species of mite that are considered "chiggers." In early to mid summer, the chigger species that causes the most problem is the one that likes to bite around tight clothing areas, such as socks, underwear, tight sleeves, etc. My body has somewhat gotten used to those, and the itch is gone in a week. But there is a type of chigger I usually only encounter in fall--while working food plots or in tall grass fields--that does not seek out tight clothing areas. I get bitten by these most often on the hands and forearms, and this chigger's bite produces a clear, fluid-filled blister. Pop that blister, and a living Hell ensues. Those bites last a full month on me, and are truly miserable.

 

[Coach]

Chigger-Rid is what I always used on my kids...seemed to work. For some reason I don't get chiggers or ticks...but, if there is one skeeter within a mile he'll find me

 

[BSK]

Chigger-Rid is what I always used on my kids...seemed to work. For some reason I don't get chiggers or ticks...but, if there is one skeeter within a mile he'll find me

Chig-rid just distracts you from scratching the itch, and not scratching helps the welt heal faster. For reducing the itch, dabbing the welts with witch hazel works well too, and it's cheap.

Some people think chiggers don't feed on them. yet in reality, it is just that the person's histamine system doesn't react to the chigger's feeding tube it creates in your skin. The itchy red bump of a chigger "bite" (and they don't really bite, they just liquefy your skin cells and drink them) is your body reacting to the chigger's liquefaction saliva as a foreign substance that must be attacked. If your body doesn't react to the chigger's saliva, you get no itchy bumps (even though chiggers ARE feeding on you).

 

[dsa5455]

Yes that's them. Thanks

 

[dsa5455]

Timber Ghost... not sure if your referring to these but I have a couple pair and they work well...

Tick Gators

Yes, Those are the chigger guards. thanks

 

[Timber Ghost]

I can get over chiggers in a week. Seed ticks are still itching a month later.

This^^^^^^^^

 

[Timber Ghost]

Timber Ghost... not sure if your referring to these but I have a couple pair and they work well...

Tick Gators

That is them, didn't know what they were called, thank you. I will be ordering some more.

 

[Timber Ghost]

Just ordered 4 prs of the ones for 4.99, only 6 prs left if you want some.