(But you'll feel itchy.) You can see an adult chigger, though. Not only are they bigger and bright red, but they have eight legs instead of six. The good news? Adult chiggers won't bite you.

Eric.Ray / Flickr As if all the biting bugs that are visible to the naked eye weren’t nuisance enough during the summer, the tiny chigger is nearly impossible to spot and produces giant welts that are ...

When I was young and doing landscape jobs that started with clearing the lots, I would regularly be the dinner of pesky chiggers. Back then, people would treat chiggers with nail polish thinking ...

You likely won’t see chiggers when they are biting you, but they leave clusters of itchy red bumps on your skin. You can encounter the teeny red bugs while walking in wooded areas or on trails ...

She thought she had rubbed up against poison ivy, but after a visit to urgent care she learned chiggers were the cause of her itchy affliction. Chiggers are actually a type of mite and it's their ...

And this year, there are more of them than ever. The worst chigger infestation in 30 years has befallen North Texas, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported - the result, experts say, of June's warm temps and ...

North Texas is seeing a chigger infestation unlike anything the region has seen in nearly 30 years. Based on filed reports and calls to Texas A&M AgriLife, experts there say this year is the worst ...

DEAR JOAN: In 2014 you wrote an article suggesting that some of the insects that were biting people in the San Jose and surrounding area could possibly be chiggers. I don’t believe that ...

Get the conversation going and you’ll soon find Oklahomans are ate-up with chiggers — and eaten up by them. When newcomer turns up with red-spotted itchy ankles, Okies are quick on the diagnosis.

It’s currently chigger season in the Middle Atlantic region. The good news is the chigger is not as common in the Washington, D.C. area as places to our south, even as close by as Richmond ...

No one is safe from the pesky chigger bite. Readers submitted their favorite remedies, and some may work for you. Summer has arrived in Lawrence, which means that chigger season is upon us.

An hour later, I suddenly came up with an answer to the culture shock question. “Chiggers. I’m having a hard time adjusting to chiggers. We didn’t have them on the East Coast.” I lifted my ...