Chiggers
Aug 18, 2020 15:20:10 #
Get some repellant that contains permethrin. You spray it on your clothes, NOT your skin. Tuck your pants leg down in your socks or tie your pants legs down over the sprayed socks. Spray around your belt line as well.
Aug 18, 2020 15:58:40 #
Best way to stop them is cover each spot with nail polish. It will smother them and they will die. Helps for shorter duration.
Aug 18, 2020 16:07:52 #
Aug 18, 2020 16:52:39 #
Chiggers are the offspring of red bugs. The babies eat your flesh, but cannot digest it. So nature has given them an acid to puke on your skin, and the baby just sucks the flesh out. The acid does not just go away, it keeps dissolving your flesh. Some people use bleach to wash the bites, and I think that is ok. The holes show up when you do nothing, because the acid is still working. Kill the red bugs and no more chiggers.
Aug 18, 2020 16:59:37 #
I'm now using 'bug soother', for mosquitos and it really works, but I don't know if it would work on chiggers. Chiggers do not drink blood like ticks, and do not bury into the skin, but eat flesh, by liquifying it. Just read the label, BS does not list chiggers.
Aug 18, 2020 17:41:57 #
Hey wy. Mike when i was kid 70 years ago we use to use coal oil to keep the chiggers off. We put it on our tenner shoes and on our pant legs. As i remember it worked pretty well. But if we did get any ma used to stick us in the wash tub with hot water and rock salt. It took the itch away in a day. Good luck Barney
Aug 18, 2020 17:46:31 #
FishfulThinking
Loc: Venetia, Pa. 25 miles S. Of Pgh.
Those things sound worse than Canadian black flies. Yikes!
Aug 18, 2020 17:59:26 #
Aug 18, 2020 18:35:02 #
halibutjim
Loc: southern ca.
When in Air Force in Texas we would wear pantyhose to
Keep Them off work good
Keep Them off work good
Aug 18, 2020 18:42:56 #
FishfulThinking
Loc: Venetia, Pa. 25 miles S. Of Pgh.
Ah ha! I knew it. Texans wear pantyhose under their chaps and boots.
Aug 18, 2020 18:46:11 #
FishfulThinking wrote:
Ah ha! I knew it. Texans wear pantyhose under their chaps and boots.
WELL DUH ! We do got females in Texas ya know.
Aug 18, 2020 19:04:58 #
FishfulThinking
Loc: Venetia, Pa. 25 miles S. Of Pgh.
saw1 wrote:
WELL DUH ! We do got females in Texas ya know.
Ya got me there!👍😄. I have seen many beautiful women in Tx even with the chaps and pointy boots.
Aug 18, 2020 19:11:04 #
FishfulThinking wrote:
Ya got me there!👍😄. I have seen many beautiful women in Tx even with the chaps and pointy boots.
Boy ain't that the truth.
Aug 18, 2020 19:11:42 #
FishfulThinking wrote:
Ya got me there!👍😄. I have seen many beautiful women in Tx even with the chaps and pointy boots.
Prettiest ladies in airports i ever been through Dallas Tx. Oh the sights will knock your socks off.
Aug 18, 2020 19:30:39 #
teabag09
Loc: Chesapeake, Virginia
Wv mike wrote:
The chiggers in my area are the worst I’ve ever seen can’t hardly walk around outside without getting them. Any one else having that problem. Or know a good remedy to stop the itching.
i have a liquid that smells like garlic when first applied but it goes away pretty quickly. It keeps ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, and most bugs away. I use a 1 gal. pump up sprayer to dispense it. It's up at my cabin and I don't remember what its called. Try googling tick and chigger repellent. Mike
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