![]() These areas make good chigger habitat.īecause chiggers are juveniles, you are likely to get chigger bites during hatching season from late spring to early fall, peaking during the summer. Chiggers can get on humans when you brush against bushes or tall grass. So if you have chigger bites, you likely brushed up against some bushes that were infested or walked through some tall grass. How do you get chigger bites?Ĭhiggers tend to hang out in groups on bushes or leaves, waiting for an animal (or human) to pass by so they can hop on and try to get a meal. It will soon molt into an adult with eight legs, whereas it only had six as a juvenile. They are pretty much hanging on for dear life and can be knocked off fairly easily.Īfter one good meal (maybe from you), the juvenile chigger can drop off and move on to the next stage in its life cycle. However, contrary to popular belief, they DO NOT burrow under your skin. This takes a couple days so they are usually trying to hang around until that process starts. Most was learned about chiggers, though, because of the problems they caused during World War II.Ĭhigger bites are so irritating because they inject enzymes into your skin through a feeding tube which decomposes your skin so they can feed on it (gross, I know). ![]() References to chiggers go all the way back to the sixth century in China. There are over 10,000 species of chiggers around the world and they can be found in every country in the world. Chiggers are usually less than 1/150th of an inch or 0.3 mm
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