Chiggers suck

[Leadchunker]

Retrieved 2 beehives from the swamp two days ago. Got a good case of the chiggers. The itching is driving me crazy.

 

[OldNascar]

Years ago we used to pick wild blackberries this time of year and the best way we knew of to keep the chiggers off was to choke down a tablespoon of sulfur powder. Once you sweated the bugs left you be from the smell. By the time we got to the berry patch we were wet with sweat, stinking real good and no bug bites to be had.

 

[DRFury]

We used to eat matchheads before going to the field at FT Bragg.

 

[Johnny]

Not a single bite since I started treating my clothing with permethrin.

 

[bigfelipe]

Not a single bite since I started treating my clothing with permethrin.

I spray mine and my shoes too. Couple weeks ago got into some. Ate my arms up... Can't win...

 

[InvisibleOne]

Permethrin on the clothes, Chigarid on the bites.

 

[Johnny]

I spray mine and my shoes too. Couple weeks ago got into some. Ate my arms up... Can't win...

I soak everything but my pillow and my underwear, boots, ruck, hammock, everything.

 

[Climberman]

Not a single bite since I started treating my clothing with permethrin.

And here we have the real solution.

 

[Cowboy]

I had them once in college after cutting some trees. I thought it was poison ivy at first then went to school nurse. I was miserable for about a week.

 

[Pogue]

I use my wife’s clear fingernail polish on the bites. Itching stops as soon as it’s dry.

 

[VA_GENTLEMAN]

I use my wife’s clear fingernail polish on the bites. Itching stops as soon as it’s dry.

Sucks when there is no clear polish in the house. After one of our TSC events, the next week was Scrotum and waistband was Candy Pink Crush!

 

[yard mongrel]

I've had a colony living on me since early May. I'm really hoping my body just stops responding like it did with mosquito bites years ago.

 

[Johnny]

I've had a colony living on me since early May. I'm really hoping my body just stops responding like it did with mosquito bites years ago.

I think you're confusing your crab infestation with chiggers.

 

[Sherrie1956]

This may sound weird, but it does work and men it will work for you.....wear pantyhose, chiggers (or ticks) cannot penetrate the material.

 

[Crazy Carl]

This may sound weird, but it does work and men it will work for you.....wear pantyhose, chiggers (or ticks) cannot penetrate the material.

Work well on long ruck marches to keep chafing & blisters at bay, too.

 

[yard mongrel]

I think you're confusing your crab infestation with chiggers.

I'll hold the lighter if you take the ice pick?

This may sound weird, but it does work and men it will work for you.....wear pantyhose, chiggers (or ticks) cannot penetrate the material.

Plus, I'll look even sexier in the field.

 

[Burt Gummer]

I soak everything but my pillow and my underwear, boots, ruck, hammock, everything.

You don’t have to soak your underwear, nothing alive is going near that

 

[VA_GENTLEMAN]

This may sound weird, but it does work and men it will work for you.....wear pantyhose, chiggers (or ticks) cannot penetrate the material.

Yeah... but full length will give you skin tags after a year.... (how did I know that?)

 

[turkeydance]

add another thumbs up for Chigarid.
https://www.chigarid.com/

not Chiggerex, etc.

it's sort of a Vicks and fingernail polish combo.
i guess you could "roll your own", but it's already cheap enough and it works on bites.

lately, all i do is just tuck everything in.
long pants in socks.
shirt in pants.
all that.
way back in the day, after i noticed that they "bit" near the elastic-areas of my clothes, i added some rubber bands around my ankles and wrists. then i checked myself throughout the day. that worked well enough to continue doing it during that summer surveying job.