What states have chiggers

Wondering how far north they live. Been supporting a small colony for about two weeks.

I have never had a chigger bite except when I lived in FT. Benning. LLL

I've got into a batch in West Central Illinois.

Be a lot easier to list the places that don’t have them.

I'm in central MD and have miserably hosted chiggers from lower Dorchester County on the eastern shore to Allegheny County to the west. Never got them in our far west county, Garrett, but almost every other one. Had 67 at one time once.

Yep
They be here
Plenty of them

We have them but they do not like me. Ticks that’s another issue

They certainly are here in western Wisconsin.

Moosetrot

I have never lived among blackflies, but I will say that, of the biting arthropods, chiggers are my least favorite. I would rather have a dose of poison ivy.

I have never heard of a chigger here, but some folks swear we have them.

We have them here in southeast SD. If I go down in the heavier, "wild" veg near the creeklet, I usually get some but up on the lawn, usually nada. We used to get them bad down at Lewis & Clark Boy Scout Camp, west of Yankton. It seems that tree cover, tall grass, and wetter conditions seem to have them. I don't know if they ar e in north SD or ND. Maybe there is a chigger and grinner lines that overlap further north

No chiggers in Alaska.

The worst biting insect I've encountered is the tsetse fly in Africa.

Jim

Tennessee is full of them as is most army posts from what I remember. Ft Bragg NC was the worst.

We get them bad in the summer.

Plenty in N MO. They don't seem to be noticeable until the end of June.

I expect I have a flock or two in the nearest blackberry patch.

We always have a bumper crop of them here. When I was a kid we would dust with sulfur to repel them when we picked blackberries.

Never heard of them here in Michigan

Easy to keep off of you. Get some sulpher from a druggest, shake a half teaspoon down each leg, or put in your pockets. Works slick, I've never got a chigger when I do that! We have a bumper crop of them here!

Plenty in SE SD!

There was a plenty of them in SE Nebraska. They especially like ankles, waist lines, and the giblets just below the waist line. ARGH The no-see-ums in Florida are just as bad only smaller.

Ive never run into rhem in upstate NY, but they're definitely in NJ

For reasons I can't explain we do not seem to have chiggers here in southwest Va. Please don't bring us any.

Kansas!

You can find them throughout the world, but they are most common in the south, southeast, and midwest in the US. Chiggers are particularly active between early spring and early autumn. They become less active after the season’s first frost. Their preferred temperature range is from 77 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit, and they die when temperatures fall below 42 degrees.

Permethrin treat your pants

PA has them. Worse infestation I ever had came from groundhog hunting when I was a kid of twelve or thirteen years old. I fell asleep behind a hay bale while watching for woodchucks to show themselves.

The next day and for a week after I suffered as dozens of them fed off me.

There must be side effects if it's sold through a druggist???

Chigger's are the state bird in Virginia. I am eat up with them right now, 3 weeks of torture. Those worthless bloodsuckers are like politicians, serve no purpose other than to bleed you dry.

Ks got a plenty but the one time I went to Louisiana I experienced chiggers in the south an o my that was miserable.

Never heard of one here in Western NY

Fortunately they don't seem to care for me. Dad would get them a lot, but I've never had them. I've lived in places where they are prevalent, such as Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina.

Used to just be on a shelf in the drug store, didn’t need a prescription or anything like that.

They leave me alone. I know some people that just the act of going outside attracts chiggers to them.

never heard of anyone ever having encountered them around here.

my calves and ankles/feet are in a state of chiggers

Not many places to get sulpher anymore, but no it is not a drug and no perscription required. And no side effects that I have ever heard!

Northern Missouri sure does have them and they like me. I hate the little sucks. I'm a Chigger magnet. Turkey Time where are you located?

People talk about them here but I don't think I have had them. Certainly nothing that lasted days.

Trillions of them here and they love me. My dad and I spent a day cutting weeds in a bean field one day before we left my mom said we should spray down for chiggers. My dad told her he had never got a chigger from a benfield. The next day he was right he had zero while mom counted over 4 hundred on me. Needless to say my dad got in trouble for that.

We definitely have them where I'm at in MO. I try to stay out of the weeds this time of year and stick to the more open timber. I can usually keep them off of me now my boy on the other hand has them on him all the time! He also has been stung by wasps about 6 times in the past 2 months where it is rare if I get stung once a year.

Never encountered one on the west coast; California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. And I've lived in all the States and Provinces listed.

Yes. They are bad but the turkey mites we have will drive you completely insane.

Be careful what you say, They're not Chiggers, they're Chigroes!

Well said.

My dad had a harvest crew for years. Almost as soon as he stepped into the wheat stubble in Oklahoma, he had them. In all the years, I cannot think of 1 of the employees that ever got them. Dad had them every year from May to September.

I may be related to your dad. I am ground zero for chiggers. Thinking of ordering some sulfer, but surely there is something better, like Permetherin. Might do both.

I have played on the same piece of ground for almost 60 years, never had chiggers till two years ago, had to get a prescription cream from the Dr. to get any relief. Now I have permethrin impregnated socks and a long sleeve T shirt to wear when I am on the low ground, didn't use the shirt one day and had the buggers chewing me in the waist band again.