Got solid chigger bites up to my knees in Louisiana in 2015. Missed several days of work and I still get phantom nerve pain from it ten years later. Screw those little things…
We’ve chosen to call them duck lice at the camps I work at.
We’ve had enough misunderstandings about the word chigger, that it warranted using the alternative term.
itt people acting surprised that these microscopic mites obtain nutrients through human skin somehow.. as though a piercing mouthpart, chewing or mechanically biting are somehow less bad/freaky than just digesting a hole with enzymes. I think the words ‘liquefying’ and ‘straw’ are doing a lot of heavy lifting in people’s minds.
a burrow, as with scabies, is considerably worse in practice.. and arguably worse psychologically, as they ultimately end up pooping under your skin, leaving itching lesions that can last weeks. Under the skin they are out of range for topical treatments and can reproduce, prolonging the infection to months or years
I despise chiggers…for some reason I’m super prone to them (get them every time I walk on grass without bug repellant on my ankles, even for 30 seconds) and react badly (swelling in addition to redness & itching).
“chiggers don’t actually burrow under your skin” *phew thank God they don’t do that, I feel better* ” but instead drink your liquified skin through a straw they make out of dead skin cells.” *Oh…*
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That’s not an improvement.
I did not know this, and I wish I still didn’t.
Upvoted.
Ah, lovely. Good to know they are environmentally conscious, recycling my SKIN into a STRAW.
Really makes me feel better about the entire situation. 😐
Much, much worse.
Got solid chigger bites up to my knees in Louisiana in 2015. Missed several days of work and I still get phantom nerve pain from it ten years later. Screw those little things…
All I know about chiggers is I’ll never say their name out loud.
I guess the sub is technically “Today I Learned” not “Today I was happy to find out”.
What a horrible day to be literate
Oh. Well that’s so much … better?
What in the ever-loving fuck is a chigger
When I was a kid in East Texas I got into a nest so bad my wiener got a bite that was purple and swollen
Me with a dozen chigger bites 😩
I was called a chigger by a student from Korea, back when I was in middle school (in Canada)
I’m a white Canadian.
There is a cute picture on the wiki:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylostome
This was a risky click and boy howdy did it not pay off.
We’ve chosen to call them duck lice at the camps I work at.
We’ve had enough misunderstandings about the word chigger, that it warranted using the alternative term.
TIL that chiggers are a bug and OP didn’t misspell a slur.
Chiggers can’t be boozers.
Ok, that’s enough learning today… Thanks for the knowledge!
Ah. So that’s why chigger bites feel like fire ants from hell. Because they are dissolving my skin. Lovely.
So glad I subscribed to Chigger Facts
I’ll take “Things I didn’t need to know” for $1,000
itt people acting surprised that these microscopic mites obtain nutrients through human skin somehow.. as though a piercing mouthpart, chewing or mechanically biting are somehow less bad/freaky than just digesting a hole with enzymes. I think the words ‘liquefying’ and ‘straw’ are doing a lot of heavy lifting in people’s minds.
a burrow, as with scabies, is considerably worse in practice.. and arguably worse psychologically, as they ultimately end up pooping under your skin, leaving itching lesions that can last weeks. Under the skin they are out of range for topical treatments and can reproduce, prolonging the infection to months or years
I’m still suffocating them with clear nail polish (although it’s been ages since I had a chigger bite)
What a terrible day to have eyes.
I miss five seconds ago when I didn’t know this
All I remember is you put clear nail polish over them although this might just be a fever dream of my childhood
Yep, and you don’t itch while the chigger is doing this. You start itching when the chigger stops drinking through the straw and it dries and itches.
I’ll upvote so more people suffer the burden of knowledge
My dad used to get chigger bites all the time when I was growing up. I somehow never got one and now I’m really glad!
I despise chiggers…for some reason I’m super prone to them (get them every time I walk on grass without bug repellant on my ankles, even for 30 seconds) and react badly (swelling in addition to redness & itching).
That sucks
“chiggers don’t actually burrow under your skin” *phew thank God they don’t do that, I feel better* ” but instead drink your liquified skin through a straw they make out of dead skin cells.” *Oh…*
Chigger please.
And now I’m itchy as hell
We’ve got something similar in the UK; chuggers