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• n  small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans
• n  larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

• Party leaders nibbled cucumber sandwiches in Illinois, collected chigger bites in Iowa, stood at attention for the Uruguayan national anthem in Montevideo (Minn.
• Down in the chigger latitudes when I was a kid, it used to pass for tolerance, now and then, to try to get away with a formula stating, in effect, that one's racism had nothing .
• They call it all sorts of names: "jeep," "beep," "peep," "bug," "chigger.

• chigoe
• chigoe flea
• Tunga penetrans
• harvest mite
• jigger
• redbug

News & Articles

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• Winkeler: Chiggers get chance to rob me of my sanity
  Chiggers!
  July 19, 2013 - The Southern Illinoisan
• Q. I had not had a chigger bite for more than 50 years, so I wasn’t sure what the bites were
  Q. I had not had a chigger bite for more than 50 years, so I wasn’t sure what the bites were when I
  July 16, 2013 - The Youngstown Vindicator
• Toothpaste eases itch of chiggers
  Q: I had not had a chigger bite for more than 50 years, so I wasn't sure what the bites were when I got some last year. I tried the old remedies, including nail polish and calamine lotion, to no avail.
  July 15, 2013 - Bradenton Herald