Susan Hogarth wrote:

Being a property owner makes you a bit less sympathetic to
wildlife, I think.

I'm sympathetic to wildlife unless it's a problem or I
feel like eating it. We now have a chigger problem and
I'm tempted to napalm, poison, and pave every last square
foot of my property. First I'm going to try decimating
(with extreame prejudice) the population of cute widdle
bunny rabbits. I suspect they are the ones sustaining
the chigger population because they tend to hang out
where I think the chiggers are, unlike squirrels or deer.

I wish I could *see* the darn things.

If anyone has any useful hints on chiggers, let me know.
I'm getting sick of having to use Cutter everytime I go
anywhere but the vegetable garden. I've been to several
web sites which aren't real informative. The "keep stuff
mowed" theory is clearly BS as our chiggers have been
spreading the past few years anyway, despite that.

The only good news is that my body doesn't freak as much
as it used to and it heals quicker, but I still get welts.

--Ted

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If anyone has any useful hints on chiggers, let me know.
I'm getting sick of having to use Cutter everytime I go
anywhere but the vegetable garden. I've been to several
web sites which aren't real informative. The "keep stuff
mowed" theory is clearly BS as our chiggers have been
spreading the past few years anyway, despite that.
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When I was a combat engineer in the US Army, we spent a lot of time in
the woods in one location or the other, and there were chiggers
everywhere. We came to find that dog/cat flea and tick collars around
the boot tops put a halt to the little buggers. Since we crawled around
on the ground, too, we made waist-sized belts out of several of them.

Smelling like a flea collar is much better than having to deal with the
cure the Army had. Much better.

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