The only chiggers in WA ride chiggerbikes. These devils roar around
pleasant outdoor areas making it almost as unbearable as any biting bug.
Is there a salve to eliminate this pest?


Tom Schooley, Olympia WA , dunlin at mail.tss.net

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> From: Norton360 at aol.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Treatment of chigger bites.
> Date: Monday, September 22, 1997 3:48 PM
>
> My favorite treatment is an over the counter cortisone type cream.
Coming
> from southern Iowa I had a lot of encounters with them. We used to put a
> thick layer of bar soap on them (we had laundry bar soap at that time and
> that was the reccomended type) with some relief (better than Calamine).
> One day in chigger season I went into the notorious chigger
stronghold of
> the Patagonia Nature Conservancy property in SE AZ with pants in socks
and
> plenty of OFF. However, I wore canvas shoes, had forgotten to spay them
and
> woke up in camp that night with the backs of my feet seemingly on fire. I
put
> the cream (the only thing that I had in my toilet kit that seemed of any
> possible use) on the bites and shortly after that was able to sleep. A
> miracle! Shortly after that I got a copy of the FIELD GUIDE TO THE
DANGEROUS
> ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA and saw they reccommended that very treatment.
> My question is: Do we have them in WA? In Iowa in my youth the saying
was
> that there were no chiggers north of US 30. The only place during my
years in
> AZ that I heard of anyone encountering them was at the Patagonia
Sanctuary.
> Bob Norton
> Joyce, WA