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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597411
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Chiggers bite you where there is snug fitting clothes ....sock area, waist band, behind knees when wearing pants, etc.


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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: #11] #6597412
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Originally Posted by #11
I'd say chiggers, I've had them BAD before. I've never had bedbugs, but from what I have heard, those bites are more on the torso.

Been in to chiggers in my youth, they don't raise like these bites. I could be wrong but I don't think chiggers.


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Mike C] #6597414
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Originally Posted by Mike C
Just saw your pic after my post. Elk's looks like bed bugs. Your pic is from chiggers.

Can they raise like that Mike and be inflammatory? We were in very remote mountain side gravesites.


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Swamp Wolf] #6597415
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Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
Chiggers bite you where there is snug fitting clothes ....sock area, waist band, behind knees when wearing pants, etc.

SW, that is where all the bites are, from all of us.


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597416
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Bed bugs would go for any exposed skin at night while in bed.


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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597417
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Yeah, they can welt up pretty good, depending on an individual's sensitivity and how much you scratch.

Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597418
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when i got bed bugs they all bit in an area that made a circle. Bites were on my elbow

Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597419
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You can see how Elk's bites are flat and kind of spread out like a rash. Your bites are smaller and rounder, typical of chiggers.

Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597423
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Awesome, thanks guys I appreciate it. Looks like I forgot what chiggers do, been a while lol. I didn't want to point fingers at the B&B and knew if I posted here you all would know, thanks!


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597429
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I have stayed in some low class hotels for work over the years and finally got bed bugs a few years back. It was winter here so I stripped outside and ran right for the shower. All my clothes and bags were left outside in sub zero temps for over a month and I never did get them in the house.

Now, bed bug bites that I had were always in rows of 2-3 bits. Always in a line everywhere that I had them. The bites you pictured look to me like No-See-Um or sand fly bites. Small bite at first and they itch like crazy. It will take a week or more to heal, the swell up, ooze a clear liquid and REALLY itch. Just my 2 cents worth.


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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597435
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Thanks 160, that's what we are experiencing. Been since 75 that I had a run in with chiggers.


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597449
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Definitely Mountain Gravesite Chiggers


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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597452
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Absorbine junior - instant relief for bed bug and chigger bites. I have also been told it works well on ringworm also.


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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597453
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I got into a bad batch of chiggers several years ago running beagles after dark, we had to wade through tall wet grass to catch the dogs. I had a solid ring around both ankles, the cuff and waistband of my underwear, neck band of t-shirt and several other places. Thought I would go insane w the itching. When you think you can't take it anymore, take as hot a shower as you can stand and let hot water run over the bites. Also, tea tree oil applied helps.

Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: white17] #6597454
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Originally Posted by white17
Definitely Mountain Gravesite Chiggers

Thank you Mr. Sir Ken. grin Have a great night.....


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: #11] #6597455
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Originally Posted by #11
I got into a bad batch of chiggers several years ago running beagles after dark, we had to wade through tall wet grass to catch the dogs. I had a solid ring around both ankles, the cuff and waistband of my underwear, neck band of t-shirt and several other places. Thought I would go insane w the itching. When you think you can't take it anymore, take as hot a shower as you can stand and let hot water run over the bites. Also, tea tree oil applied helps.

Thank you #11


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597460
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Chiggers..gotta love em, permethrin is best thing out there for preventative measures, nothin you can do but itch them raw for next couple weeks.

Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597467
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Chiggers, we just got back a couple weeks ago from Illinois trimming shooting lanes and putting up stands and even using permithrin we still got eat up with chiggers, they really effected my dad for two weeks and some even blistered. Mean little boogers

Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597471
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Bed bug hosting bites it appears. Hope you all didn't bring them home with you.

Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with [Re: Catch22] #6597473
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you can see bed bugs but NOT chiggers

the bites look like chiggers to me, just like ive had a few times

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