I wish their were no chiggars

[ropensaddle]

For people in the north be thankful you don't know what they are. Its been a terrible year here for them and I have raw legs right now from the insatiable sleepless scratching. I am thinking of springing for rhino skyn anyone who lives were chiggars out number the sand grains on all worlds beaches ever try it ?

 

[mauldinoutdoor]

I enjoy Michigan just for that reason. No chiggers, only 1 poisonous snake - that you never see anyway - no copperhead or moccasins. None of those mosquitoes with the white spots that can bite through jeans. I moved up from N.C. 14 years ago and don't miss much except the year round work

 

[mattfr12]

For people in the north be thankful you don't know what they are. Its been a terrible year here for them and I have raw legs right now from the insatiable sleepless scratching. I am thinking of springing for rhino skyn anyone who lives were chiggars out number the sand grains on all worlds beaches ever try it ?

Rope how you been man? I haven't checked the forums in like a year but was shocked to see a post from you last time I looked you have t been around in a while and that was way back .

 

[ropensaddle]

Rope how you been man? I haven't checked the forums in like a year but was shocked to see a post from you last time I looked you have t been around in a while and that was way back .

I'm chasing the dream and caught in the nightmare lol. I'm ok though, still climbing you know

 

[Del_]

Good to see you have something to keep you busy.

 

[JTM]

After you come out of the woods fill a bathtub as hot as you can stand it. Pour in a few cups of Pinesol and soak. I think this kills the ones that haven't burrowed in. The ones that have I have had good results with Ivyrest (made for poison oak and ivy) to help with the itching. They secrete a protein that lines the borehole in your skin and is the source causing the fierce itching. Fingernail polish doesn't do crap.

 

[JTM]

Oh and BTW, I used to work with some military folks that would wear pantyhose when training in the woods in the south. They swore by it.

 

[moondoggie]

Go hogs!!

 

[Pelorus]

Fishnet stockings appear to offer no protection at all, Rope.

 

[daddy]

I got them once up here in PA. Was told to put a drop of clear nail polish on them to suffocate them. Had em all over my back. As I recall the nail polish helped.

 

[jrider]

Bring a lint roller with you and use it all over. They come off like nothing

 

[Eq Broker]

Go to the drug store and get some powdered sulphur. Put some around your socks and your waistband.

Hope it helps!

Dave
Global Equipment Exporters
770-420-6400

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Had the scabies a few months back I think, might have been some kind of mite, I am not to sure, might still even have it, might have been chiggers. I used a peroxide compress.

Glad there isn't a variety of really nasty creepy creatures around these parts and I can't stress that enough.

Three separate hornet/wasp attacks this year had me swollen for a week combined. Talk about depressing.

 

[ropensaddle]

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Had the scabies a few months back I think, might have been some kind of mite, I am not to sure, might still even have it, might have been chiggers. I used a peroxide compress.

Glad there isn't a variety of really nasty creepy creatures around these parts and I can't stress that enough.

Three separate hornet/wasp attacks this year had me swollen for a week combined. Talk about depressing.

these can be fun 60 foot up a pine
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[treebilly]

F them things!!!

 

[Jakers]

Buy the 100% deet and use it in the morning around your socks and pant cuffs. i also spray it along my belt and waistline. they are around here but only if its real hot and dry. even then they are minimal. i found em bad in South Dakota working in road ditches burying fiber optic cable. this was the ultimate preventative block for them

 

[ropensaddle]

Buy the 100% deet and use it in the morning around your socks and pant cuffs. i also spray it along my belt and waistline. they are around here but only if its real hot and dry. even then they are minimal. i found em bad in South Dakota working in road ditches burying fiber optic cable. this was the ultimate preventative block for them

Yeah 100% deet works but you still get bites here it seems they became immune. South dakota is like nebraska a few chiggars on hottest days but here think billions of seed ticks ,chiggars ,buffalo gnats, cottonmouth,copperhead,timber rattlers,gators. The north gets cold enough these do not exist in the densities comparable. I can walk out my door and if I step one foot outside where I sprayed i'll be ate up in seconds! I had to come home sometimes from work because I had literally 1000s of seed ticks crawling on me. I have worked in Nebraska ,Indiana,Michigan,Missouri,Texas,and here the first four states mentioned were a breeze the last two are virtually like bathing in stinging nettles not comparable lmao.

 

[ropensaddle]

Yeah 100% deet works but you still get bites here it seems they became immune. South dakota is like nebraska a few chiggars on hottest days but here think billions of seed ticks ,chiggars ,buffalo gnats, cottonmouth,copperhead,timber rattlers,gators. The north gets cold enough these do not exist in the densities comparable. I can walk out my door and if I step one foot outside where I sprayed i'll be ate up in seconds! I had to come home sometimes from work because I had literally 1000s of seed ticks crawling on me. I have worked in Nebraska ,Indiana,Michigan,Missouri,Texas,and here the first four states mentioned were a breeze the last two are virtually like bathing in stinging nettles not comparable lmao.

Oh I forgot to mention we also got bigfoot

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

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these can be fun 60 foot up a pine
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At this point anytime I feel like there might be something touching me I go to defcon 1... or is it 5?

If there was a chance I would run into a snake or other venomous creature I probably would move here. I live in fear that one day I will come across some lethal infestation even under my own porch though. But its just the groundhogs. And its always in my mind I will climb into some anomaly of a nest in a tree... so I am pretty much ready to bail in that case. In every tree I think about getting attacked or cutting into something.

 

[ropensaddle]

At this point anytime I feel like there might be something touching me I go to defcon 1... or is it 5?

If there was a chance I would run into a snake or other venomous creature I probably would move here. I live in fear that one day I will come across some lethal infestation even under my own porch though. But its just the groundhogs. And its always in my mind I will climb into some anomaly of a nest in a tree... so I am pretty much ready to bail in that case. In every tree I think about getting attacked or cutting into something.

Ahh you got timber rattlers I think and even eastern copperheads just no where near as many! I went catfishing one night and counted 127 cottonmouths swim by me in 3 hours lol its not as bad though as it sounds. It isn't the ones I see that worry me its the one you do not see that will get ya!