Clusters of chigger bites like this are often referred to as chigger rash, and are common on the ankles. As if all the biting bugs that are visible to the naked eye weren’t nuisance enough during the ...

Getting rid of chiggers is easier when you know more about the creepy-crawly buggers and how they behave, as there are several misconceptions about the microscopic mites. When it comes to chiggers, ...

Reader's Digest3 Tips to Avoid Insect Bites and StingsDon’t let any stinging bugs catch you off-guard. Here’s how to prevent painful bites. The summer means more sun, hot weather, and time spent ...

Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. Here in the United States, they are most common in the southeast, south central and Midwestern ...

Common insect bites can come from mosquitoes, chiggers and no-see-ums. Experts outline key ways to figure out which insect bite you have. Treatment for these insect bites is the same: topical or oral ...

Last weekend was a very relaxing holiday. I got a lot of yard work done and caught up. It was a great feeling to have some of the honey-do-list completed. My only issue was that while I was setting ...

According to doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, chigger bites may cause a rare allergic reaction to red meat called alpha-gal. The medical community has known for years that ticks can ...

Playing or working outdoors around the ArkLaTex this time of year can be unpleasant at times. You can blame the heat, humidity and especially the bugs. Mosquitoes, flies, wasps, fire ants and spiders ...

BRANSON, Mo. (KY3) -People visiting Table Rock Lake and people who live along the water are seeing more chigger bites this summer. Health officials say many people confuse chiggers with ticks, but ...

Ticks are awful, but chiggers in many ways are as bad if not worse. You can see ticks, even in the tiny larval phase to which we often refer to as seed ticks. It's easy to hate a malignancy that we ...

Doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center say chigger bites may cause a rare allergic reaction to red meat called alpha-gal. The medical community has known for years that ticks can cause this ...