Chiggers

  • whitetails4ever
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 756
    July 27, 2011 at 1:39 pm #207072

    Do any of you guys have any tips, tricks, etc. for preventing chiggers from getting on ya? Everytime I go down to my farm in Missouri in the summer, I come home with chigger bites. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18615
    July 27, 2011 at 5:20 pm #107696

    I can only speak to the ones in water. If swimming in suspected water towel dry off vigoursly when exciting the water. Includes changing to dry clother right away.

    hooknfinger
    Rochester, Minnesota
    Posts: 1290
    July 27, 2011 at 10:21 pm #107703

    I got into them one year bear hunting, the next year i bought the cabelas bug skins and havent had any problems since then. I dont know if it actually works or i just havent found them since then

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22450
    July 28, 2011 at 12:41 am #107704

    I bite em first… I also can speak to the water born buggers. As kids, growing up on the lake, we got em every year. Mom always soaked us in Baking Soda baths, seemed to dry em up pretty well Good luck on your trip south

    walleyebuster5
    Central MN
    Posts: 3916
    July 28, 2011 at 6:13 pm #107721

    There’s chiggers that don’t live in the water?

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    July 29, 2011 at 11:59 am #107727

    Although a lot of people use the term chigger for the water-borne pest, chiggers are land-based mites. The crap you get from the water is known as swimmer’s itch. It comes from a water-borne parasite.

    I’ve never had either, but I can remember my sister getting some horrendous cases of swimmer’s itch when we were young. It looked miserable!

    Jon Stevens
    Northfield, Wi
    Posts: 1242
    July 29, 2011 at 3:38 pm #107734

    Not a prevention but it helps once you’ve been bitten to cover up chigger bites (not swimmers itch) with clear nail polish…works great. I’ve never had a chigger bite here in Wisconsin but when I lived in Nebraska, it was horrible!

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22450
    July 31, 2011 at 7:47 pm #107740

    Quote:

    Although a lot of people use the term chigger for the water-borne pest, chiggers are land-based mites. The crap you get from the water is known as swimmer’s itch. It comes from a water-borne parasite.

    I’ve never had either, but I can remember my sister getting some horrendous cases of swimmer’s itch when we were young. It looked miserable!

    I heard that swimmers itch (chiggers) comes from duck poo in the water… I also heard the nail polish trick yesterday !!

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    August 1, 2011 at 9:34 pm #107748

    Quote:

    I heard that swimmers itch (chiggers) comes from duck poo in the water… I also heard the nail polish trick yesterday !!

    Yeah, I believe it passes through the intestinal tract of waterfowl. It also passes through snails.

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