Posted: 7/27/2013 10:36:05 AM EDT
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Is there some shit I can spray on my legs to keep them off? I'm all ate up and their bites take forever to heal on me. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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when they make it to your sack, scratch until red & then use Absorbine Jr.
Chiggers = Red Bugs I don't know if the Military Jungle 50% Deet works to repel them or not but they go for the sack = nice & soft & damp, compared to the leg, but I guess know that part. 
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Treat your clothing with Permethrin. Shirt, trousers, socks, underclothes, etc. It will remain effective for weeks, including after repeated washing. Spray on your clothes, and gear, let it dry, then it's safe to wear. Don't put it directly on your skin. Works for ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers, mites, and other biting insects. |
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Treat your clothing with Permethrin. Shirt, trousers, socks, underclothes, etc. It will remain effective for weeks, including after repeated washing. Spray on your clothes, and gear, let it dry, then it's safe to wear. Don't put it directly on your skin. Works for ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers, mites, and other biting insects. Awesome. Where do I go to buy it? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: Awesome. Where do I go to buy it? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quoted: Quoted: Treat your clothing with Permethrin. Shirt, trousers, socks, underclothes, etc. It will remain effective for weeks, including after repeated washing. Spray on your clothes, and gear, let it dry, then it's safe to wear. Don't put it directly on your skin. Works for ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers, mites, and other biting insects. Awesome. Where do I go to buy it? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Sporting goods stores that focus on camping/hunting/fishing/hiking. It comes under several name brands, Repel, Permanone, Sawyer. May be able to find it at Tractor Supply, or Farm and Fleet, as well. |
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Deep Woods OFF works, for any that get through Chigarid is the best thing ever invented, I'm serious! WalMart around here used to carry it, they quit and now I can't find it locally, I will probably have to break down and order it online, nothing else works. http://www.chigarid.com/ |
| Wash the effected areas with water as hot as you can stand and dish soap. Sometimes the larvae linger, but the key irritant is their rotting digestive juices around the skin they chewed off. Normal soap isn't strong enough to kill bacteria and doesn't really do much. |
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I use cheap flea & tick spray for dogs that contains pyrethrins/permethrin and spray my boots & pants up to my knees.
Cat flea & tick spray won't work because it doesn't contain pyrethrins. FYI, pyrethrins can/will kill the pussy. That's why they're sold separately. |
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Pertinent thread is pertinent. Not sure why, but the chiggers up here in MO are way more powerful than where I lived all my life (Texas). Could be a different type of bug that my body is not used to??? They are killing me. Before working in central and eastern Nebraska I never had much of a problem. These ones are fucking radioactive mutants. The bites I got there last year took two or three months to heal. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Pertinent thread is pertinent. Not sure why, but the chiggers up here in MO are way more powerful than where I lived all my life (Texas). Could be a different type of bug that my body is not used to??? They are killing me. Ditto for me here in NW Oklahoma. Never had a single one my whole life in Georgia. Didn't have any here last summer - this summer however. ..... they are driving me nuts! Luckily they haven't reached that high yet tho. 
 
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Quoted: Is there some shit I can spray on my legs to keep them off? I'm all ate up and their bites take forever to heal on me. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: Ditto for me here in NW Oklahoma. Never had a single one my whole life in Georgia. Didn't have any here last summer - this summer however. ..... they are driving me nuts! Luckily they haven't reached that high yet tho. Quoted: Quoted: Pertinent thread is pertinent. Not sure why, but the chiggers up here in MO are way more powerful than where I lived all my life (Texas). Could be a different type of bug that my body is not used to??? They are killing me. Ditto for me here in NW Oklahoma. Never had a single one my whole life in Georgia. Didn't have any here last summer - this summer however. ..... they are driving me nuts! Luckily they haven't reached that high yet tho. |
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Is that like the Chinese version of "wigger"? Uighurs |
| We used to use a "Sergent's Flea and Tick" collar. Put one around each ankle but not NOT where it touches skin. We bloused them in our pants. Two more attached together went under our belt, again do not let it touch your skin. Didn't bother me and perhapse counteracted the agent orange. |
| I grew up in Missouri and you 'aint kiddin'! Those damn things will tear your ass (and nutsack) up! Deep Woods Off is pretty good for keeping them away. My problem was that I'd get lazy and not take the time to spray it all over my clothing and legs. I'd pay the price later. |
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Pertinent thread is pertinent. Not sure why, but the chiggers up here in MO are way more powerful than where I lived all my life (Texas). Could be a different type of bug that my body is not used to??? They are killing me. Some Texan is about to come along and tell you about a chigger carrying off his herd. 
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Any of the Off stuff works. I'm allergic to them. They make large oozing knots on me that take forever (weeks) to heal without taking Benadryl and they will cover me up when they don't hardly bother anyone else. .
I've got this down to a system, hold the pants legs up, spray my socks and shoe tops, then the pants legs to at least knee high, then around my waist on and over the belt (they love to crawl in and bite me right over the belt), up the button line on my shirt and around the end of the shirt arms (same with them crawling in these and biting me all over) and then a good coating on the arms and hands. |