Mr Bombastic

Question. What's the worst bug bite you've ever had? I'm talking about non-venomous bites.

It's a no brainer for me. Chiggers are the worst. I've never experienced anything like it. If you've ever been bitten by one, I'm sure you'll agree.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

For some reason I seem very attractive to chiggers. right now I have at least 20 bites on my legs and BOY DO THEY ITCH!!!

SWMBO

Mr Bombastic

WOW! I've never had that many. I think the most I ever had at one time was four or five. I feel for ya.

rjoeholl

Get a product caller Chiggarid from your pharmacy. Great stuff

kenvrla Loc: East Tx Piney Woods

Cortisone crean,10%, will give you relief in 10 minutes. 20 is tough. Been known to shave the tops off with a knife. Chiggers are bad. Buffalo gnats are the worst. Will last 2 weeks or more.

alabuck Loc: Tennessee

While chiggers are a nuisance, how about Black Widow and Brown Recluse bites? Some people have died from the bites of those bugs! Others have had portions of their skin/tissue removed due to the results of those bites.

GmanTerry

When I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast West Africa, I contracted malaria twice. I was sure I was going to die. So mosquito bites on the equator were my worst bug bites.

BTW, for you folks who may be curious, I joined the Peace Corps after I survived Vietnam. Just trying to even the scales a little.

Semper Fi

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

I have spent most of the last week in the garden, harvesting the rest of the summer squash, and a lot of tomatoes plus much of the corn. A 2 1/2 acre plot provides most of our not animal related food for the winter plus much for the neighbors. The place has a lot of chiggers, and they must think I am sweet.Now to can most of it for the winter. The neighbors have already picked the things they want, and will till the whole plot after the rest come out, tilling under a lot of chicken manure. A friend came over to collect the produce that goes to several families in need, mostly old people (understand I consider myself young at 73, imagine what old means) but also a family with young kids. The husband had an accident working in the mine and is still recouperating.Saturday a neighbors two kids (8 and 10) are coming over to "help" me make cookies, chocolate chip with walnut and peanut butter. They have fun and learn something about baking. Their mother died having the younger one, so they have a whole slew of surrogate moms teaching them what ever we can. Mike will do the canning, and help with the cookie making by sampling all, but his mobility is not what it requires to do outside work.
I am going to go out and get the chiggar product that has been recommended, maybe it will help

SWMBO (MaryBeth)

fidelis

Chiggers don't hold a candle to FIRE ANTS.

alabuck Loc: Tennessee

GmanTerry,
Thank you for your service!

GO NAVY!!!!!
Ya know, without the Navy hauling their butts around, the Marines would sink like a rock.

goofball Loc: timbucktoo

The love bug!

Mr Bombastic

I was never bitten by that one, but I was bitten a few times by its close cousin. The lust bug.

teabag09

If you only got bitten by one you don't know chiggers. I worked outside at a 763 city, state like park for 25 years. Every year we'd spray ourselves down when going into the woods and wal-wah, CHIGGERS. I hate ticks worst but chiggers will make you seek God's intervention. The thing about chiggers is they are quick little crab like critters who seek out your most moist, dark parts. They move very quickly, can't really be seen, because they're really small, and only attach for a short period of time. prime targets are ankles, under socks, crotch especially true with ticks, any covered and dark damp part of body. Look them up, they are fascinating.

Chiggers or as some call them red bugs don't suck blood but chew on the skin on your body. They have a mandible and saliva that turns your skin into an editable for them, in return they leave a crusty cyst below the skin which itches like crazy and spends days working it's way out.

Once they have fed on you they drop off and become vegetarians, little bastards. I've been stung by just about everything in the US. Ticks gross me out to the max. I raised garden spiders when young, putting them on my shoulder and having to find them when I got home. I reached into a swarm of honeybees for bait for my father and me to go fishing, that didn't work for my dad, I didn't get stung, they were swarming In the last couple of years where I worked I had a sort of pet wolf spider. She measured about a little over a nickel in body and about five inches in legs. Because of her I didn't have anybody checking behind me, though they didn't need to. They would ask me why I didn't get rid of her? I was up front, she keeps you out of the water treatment plant and she eat the mole crickets. PS, I put corn and sunflower seeds out for the mice. That was the reason I didn't want people in there. They didn't understand critters. They all have their place in my world and yet I kill deer and rabbits and shoot at doves. I'm doing the deer and rabbits as a whole a favor. I can explain if needed. Mike

It's a no brainer for me. Chiggers are the worst. I've never experienced anything like it. If you've ever been bitten by one, I'm sure you'll agree.[/quote]

teabag09

I hope you found peace in that. My wife went there, Peace Corps, God Bless you and thank God for you making it out. Mike

teabag09

God bless you Mary Beth. Keep those chillins close and teach them everything you and those other gals know. It'll be worth more than the kids will ever be taught in school. I think things may get tough and teaching the kids common get along to get along, sewing, cooking, washing, being neat and presentable(which may go out the window because of situations). Show those kids the right way. YEAH! I'm doing the same with my Grandkids even though their Mom(my daughter) and my son in law are doing a fantastic job of raising the kids. I get to be a little more strict and at the same time be more favorably giving. Being a Grandparent is the Bee's Knees. Mikequote=no propaganda please]I have spent most of the last week in the garden, harvesting the rest of the summer squash, and a lot of tomatoes plus much of the corn. A 2 1/2 acre plot provides most of our not animal related food for the winter plus much for the neighbors. The place has a lot of chiggers, and they must think I am sweet.Now to can most of it for the winter. The neighbors have already picked the things they want, and will till the whole plot after the rest come out, tilling under a lot of chicken manure. A friend came over to collect the produce that goes to several families in need, mostly old people (understand I consider myself young at 73, imagine what old means) but also a family with young kids. The husband had an accident working in the mine and is still recouperating.Saturday a neighbors two kids (8 and 10) are coming over to "help" me make cookies, chocolate chip with walnut and peanut butter. They have fun and learn something about baking. Their mother died having the younger one, so they have a whole slew of surrogate moms teaching them what ever we can. Mike will do the canning, and help with the cookie making by sampling all, but his mobility is not what it requires to do outside work.
I am going to go out and get the chiggar product that has been recommended, maybe it will help

SWMBO (MaryBeth)[/quote]