Posted: 8/22/2009 10:03:41 AM EDT
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Which does ARFcommers hate more?
For me its chiggers, I've been hauling hay the last few days and got ate alive with them little bastards. |
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at least you can see the seed ticks and remove them, chiggers borrow down and you have to wait for tem to fall out. Chiggers don't actually burrow down into your skin. That is a myth. from what i read they bite you and lay their larva in the bite. the bite has powerful enzymes that kills the skin cells around the bite. the larva feed on the dead skin cells and once they morph they fall off? |
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Quoted: at least you can see the seed ticks and remove them, chiggers borrow down and you have to wait for tem to fall out. That is a very pervasive myth actually. They do not burrow into your skin. Anyway, chiggers fucking SUCK. One of the reasons I hated being in Georgia so much when I was in Basic training. Thank god they don't have those up here. |
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Which does ARFcommers hate more? For me its chiggers, I've been hauling hay the last few days and got ate alive with them little bastards. Chiggers are a small annoyance. My strategy is to rub my legs every 15 min I'm in the grass to knock them off. It's about 90% effective. |
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at least you can see the seed ticks and remove them, chiggers borrow down and you have to wait for tem to fall out. Chiggers don't actually burrow down into your skin. That is a myth. from what i read they bite you and lay their larva in the bite. the bite has powerful enzymes that kills the skin cells around the bite. the larva feed on the dead skin cells and once they morph they fall off? Partially correct. Basically they bite you and inject digestive enzymes that partially digest the tissue then they "drink" it, but they don't leave any larva. They can stay on you for a while if left alone but are easily brushed or washed off. |
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Chiggers are horrid little creatures. I must have gotten into a "nest" or something while doing an advanced land nav course in the 90s'. Feet were covered halfway to the knees, then sporadic bites until you got to the GROIN.....and on up to one of my armpits, WTF? EVIL, EVIL little creatures....and for some reason they like the way I taste.
The theory is that pantyhose will protect you, but if you anything physical that shit will rip right up.. plus kinda gay. DEET don't work. I finally solved the problem by blousing flea collars into my boots.... |
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Never had a chigger, wouldn't know one to see one. I don't get mosquito bites either. I got lymes from the only tick bite I ever got though. The worst summer I had was the one years ago when I found out that fleas love ferrets. And when there are too many fleas for your ferrets, the fleas leave the sleazy weasels and seek a happy meal on human. I had to flea-bathe 3 ferrets every day for a week, and flea-bomb 3 times. Ferret fleas sound less annoying than chiggers. |
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I had my intro to chiggers in knee deep grass at night behind a fire station in Nashville, Tennessee. So I got them, up to the knees. Commence two days of pure itchy-as-fuck HELL. I think that you could scratch your way to the bone in an attempt to cure that itch.  Frankly, given a choice between another chigger attack like that or another kidney stone attack, I'd probably take the kidney stone attack. CJ |