Fawkin chiggers!

[jluv]

They don't burrow in the skin! They walk around drinking your skin.. If you look closely you can see them moving around.

You'd need a magnifying glass. They are nearly microscopic. I've never seen one before.

[lowthreeohz]

Try my peroxide trick jared. Cuts the itch from weeks to maybe 2-3 days tops.

[lowthreeohz]

You'd need a magnifying glass. They are nearly microscopic. I've never seen one before.

Not the ones I have at my house. They look like little red freckles that move. You've likely never seen them bc by the time the bite starts itching they've walked elsewhere.

[FastFox]

Chiggers

We used to put keroseve around the bottom of our pants legs and on our boots before going to the hay field. An old man once said he would put a flea collar around the top of his work boots. Claimed it worked for ticks too. If so, pretty cheap fix.

[jluv]

Try my peroxide trick jared. Cuts the itch from weeks to maybe 2-3 days tops.

I just got some prescription stuff from my foot doctor that I will try next time. It's bound to happen again.

[jluv]

Not the ones I have at my house. They look like little red freckles that move.

Holy shit! Your eyes are certainly better than mine!

[SamTex]

They actually don't burrow into or live in your skin.

This.

Only thing to do is not itch them. If they flare up, extreme heat is my only savior. I'll run them over with the hottest water I can stand...or light a lighter 'till the metal piece gets hot and press down on it. Can be painful, but such sweet relief.

[Sean88gt]

They actually don't burrow into or live in your skin. And I wish scratching until you bleed would stop the itching. My bites have been scratched, stabbed over, researched, stabbed over again, and so on for 3 weeks now. They are finally not itching much at all.

Not in the sense that they bury themselves, but they dig hole, insert tube, dump flesh rotting enzymes in, suck out, and say fuck you.

[bcoop]

If you keep your grass mowed short you shouldn't have them in your yard. They take to long grass and weeds. I wouldn't give credit to a product in your mowed lawn.

I think when you border property that isn't manicured, you're going to have problems regardless of how short you keep your grass. That's been her experience anyways. She says the Bayer does help keep them in check better than anything else they've tried.

We have tall grass and weeds in the greenbelt behind our place, and we've been hanging back there a lot.

Neither one of us got any bites that night we were there. I was surprised. Yellow sulfur powder is what we've always used on the farm as a preventative. I'll always rub my legs and feet down with it when I'm working in high brush, and used to use it when I fished a lot. Works great.

[lowthreeohz]

I think when you border property that isn't manicured, you're going to have problems regardless of how short you keep your grass. That's been her experience anyways. She says the Bayer does help keep them in check better than anything else they've tried.

I read that bark dust/mulch/rocks forming a 3' "mote" at the edge of your property will prevent them from commuting into the inside perimeter.

[jluv]

I think when you border property that isn't manicured, you're going to have problems regardless of how short you keep your grass. That's been her experience anyways. She says the Bayer does help keep them in check better than anything else they've tried.


Neither one of us got any bites that night we were there. I was surprised. Yellow sulfur powder is what we've always used on the farm as a preventative. I'll always rub my legs and feet down with it when I'm working in high brush, and used to use it when I fished a lot. Works great.

Ya, I'm thinking that since I mowed it down, maybe that's what has helped. My bites were from before that, when it was tall. But we're gonna have to put something back there anyway, I think. Just don't want to use something too crazy that kills everything.

I remember using the sulfur powder when we'd go to my uncle's land in Meridian. It was all wild growth used for hunting and stuff. The sulfur seemed to work great. I think we used it to help keep ticks off of us, too.

My grandparents also have land out there, but theirs is mostly kept real short and manicured, and we didn't get chiggers there. We did get stinging nettle, and that shit sucks!!!

[lowthreeohz]

Ya, I'm thinking that since I mowed it down, maybe that's what has helped. My bites were from before that, when it was tall. But we're gonna have to put something back there anyway, I think. Just don't want to use something too crazy that kills everything.

Try Diatamateous earth.. that shit works and it's just crushed up sea shells.

[BMCSean]

Just sprinkle some crack on them.

[bcoop]

Try Diatamateous earth.. that shit works and it's just crushed up sea shells.

Cheap as shit too. It works on most other insects. Don't know why it wouldn't work on chiggers.

[lowthreeohz]

Cheap as shit too. It works on most other insects. Don't know why it wouldn't work on chiggers.

yeah 5 gal buckets are cheap, and anything with an exoskeleton should be affected by it.