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Old 10-05-2009, 07:55 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Ticks in my garden?


"Sam" wrote

| The other day I noticed tiny spider like creatures crawling ALL over
| my stone edging in my garden. They were red. After looking up ticks
| today (for a different reason), I'm thinking maybe they are baby
| ticks. They are the size of the head of a needle. Very TINY.
|
| Could they be anything else?

Chiggers is what they are. You don't want to be bitten by these, but it's
hard to stop from happening. Photo and info he
http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resour...ers(008).shtml