“Chiggers are an outdoor biting pest. They feed once, and will not reproduce indoors and have continuous generations,” says entomologist Jody Green, at the University of Nebraska. They are typically ...

Reader's Digest3 Tips to Avoid Insect Bites and StingsDon’t let any stinging bugs catch you off-guard. Here’s how to prevent painful bites. The summer means more sun, hot weather, and time spent ...

Chiggers are a type of mite, or arthropod, in the family Trombiculidae. They are extremely small red bugs that measure about 1/60th of an inch — barely visible with the naked eye — and you'd likely ...

A friend of mine’s wife got a bad case of the chiggers, and with all the public service announcements about lyme disease, I figured a mention about ticks and chiggers is not a bad idea. Since deer ...

Summer in Florida brings increased bug activity and itchy bites from pests like chiggers, no-see-ums and mosquitoes. Chiggers are tiny mites that leave itchy rashes, often around ankles, knees, waists ...