Took the itch away but it’s probably not fight infection I’ll need to wipe down today the bites weeping seems never ending I slept in socks to control some of that from ruining the sheets. Ankles were “tight” when I got up so I greased them up for better movement slow to get going.

I used 2 sleeping bags when I was down there they are in the truck still will get washed today everything I wore down there went through the wash also when I got home, I’m being very pro active.

I spent a lot of time clearing brush smaller trees mostly for the food plots wearing stupid slip on shoes was the big issues but that’s all I had and we had a job to get done so we did it. It’s really not that bad most of the time but then it’s all out itchy diving me nuts until I freshen it up. One bite in particular is on the side foot bottom on the foot line it’s tough to work on for some reason.

rough! I'm another one that doesn't get bothered by them.. Still spend a lot of time in the woods and weeds coon hunting. My wife can't get near a weedy patch in warm weather or she gets them..

Only chiggers I ever got was in the Amazon. We don't have them in Oregon.

I had the same problem when I was in the woods cutting buckthorn. So, I started wearing rubber knee boots. Sprayed them with permethrin. No problem since.

Back in my younger days, I was groundhog hunting out in a hayfield that had been baled. I fell asleep for at least an hour sitting behind a bale using it as a rifle rest.

That’s the worst I ever had chiggers. Had bites from my boot tops all the way up to my groin.

I never forgot that incident.

We don’t have seed ticks here, just deer ticks and dog ticks. They are bad enough.

Once you get them, a soak in the bath with s table spoon of bleach always helped me kill the little things and that eventually help with the itch. Rubbing alcohol after that to help dry up the bites

If you have any jewel weed growing near you, typically it is found around and along the water ways, streams and shade areas. It is very good for inch relief from poison oak, ivy and insect bites.

I was expecting to see chantrelles.

Keith

Those chiggers bites will go away in a month. I have had some itch relief by applying straight Clorox with a bath cloth.

You need saltwater Law Dog.....Discovered this years ago while vacationing in Destin, Florida.

Went down there covered like you in chiggers and a few tick bites...A couple days of short dips in the ocean cleared those bites up fast.

I was thinking about Epson salts it seems salt kills about everything.

You bet, a couple epsom salt soaks for a few days would be ideal.

Supposedly, once you feel the chigger bites, they are usually gone. What itches is your bodies reaction to the chemicals they injected to make the walled of feeding tube they sucked your blood from. It can take 6 hours after feeding for the the chigger bites to be felt. I don't completely believe that because sometimes more bites show up a day or two later.

A few years ago, Diane got something on her in one of our barns, after laying on some newer hay. The bites looked like chigger bites, they were mostly where her clothes were tight, but there were hundreds. More bites kept appearing, even days later. I started getting bites on me. We both took Ivomec and no new bites appeared and the itching stopped in a couple of days. It's possible she got scabies mites or some other type of mite. Scabies mites burrow in your skin, live and lay eggs, that keep producing more mites.

Keith

I'm about 100 miles from where Law Dog was, and we have been dealing with the ticks all summer. But worse has become the wasps. They are everywhere. Just got stung again walking thru a barn and past an old lawn trailer. Mud dabbers and paper wasps. My sister got popped about 5 times by a bunch that had built a big nest on a rose bush in my mother's flower box. Right under dining room window.

But ticks have become no joke. Neighbor contracted that alpha gal thing from a tick bite a few years back. Now can't eat red meat of any kind or risks going into shock and croaking.

Ouch!! Just went thru the same thing two weeks ago. not fun!!

A few springs ago we had the verity pack of ticks during a spring Turkey hunt large medium and small sizes and plenty of them. This year it was just the tiny ones you have to do a double take when you spot one.

They're not to be called chiggers anymore, they're chigroes.

Try Athletes foot spray. after the alcohol

By the way, I've put Ivomec on some areas of weird skin growth from wounds and encysted thorns and the skin soon looks normal after a few applications, even on spots that are many years old. I have no idea why it works, but it does work. Does anyone know why Ivomec helps?

Keith