Chiggers.

[Worth1]

I'm posting this here because without me there wouldn't be any garden.
I got home the other day and I now am the proud owner of two chigger bites on my left eye.
One on the lid and the other right at the corner by my nose.
a few in the nether regions and some on my legs.
For years we didn't have chiggers and about 4 years ago they showed up in droves.

All I did was go look at the gaden for a wee bit and came in when I got home.

Chiggers/Red Bugs are horrible.
They stick a wee proboscis in your skin and dissolve tissue and suck it up.
The funnel they leave behind is the thing that causes you to itch not the bug.
It is your body rejecting the funnel.

You can get hot soapy water and a scrub brush and remove the funnel and the itch will go away.
I cant very well do anything around my eye.

This is driving me crazy, my eyes are all red and swollen and itch.
It will be many days before it goes away.
Another thing is the chigger that bothers us is one that is supposed to be on birds not us.
The one that is attracted to humans dont bother us and we never know they are there.

What on earth can I do to run these things out of my yard.
All I have seen is toxic sprays.

Worth