Had a chat earlier this evening with a client who is an absentee landowner selling a bit more than half of an 80-acre tract. The new division line falls along a quarter mile length of hedge and locust trees with much undergrowth that isn't easy to survey through using any of our common methods. That mess of over-sized vegetation is 400 to 600 feet wide.
As I was explaining how the invoice was increasing due to the slow going................and he understood, I added that I had some really, really good news for him. Of course, he wanted to know what that was. I told him, "I took every last chigger in that mess home with me so you won't ever have to worry about them again." He is quite talented at laughing. Perhaps he should apply for a job helping to make laugh tracks for sitcoms.
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For those of you who don't live in chigger country, consider yourselves very fortunate.
The following photos are provided to demonstrate the havoc those itty bitty buggers can create. None of the photos are of me, BTW.
A cup of PineSol in the bath water and soak for about 10-15 minutes as soon as you get home. If you already have sores like above, then it is too late.
James
Hopefully you can survey and get the monuments location before having to cut the boundary.
When the boundary that needs marked is like you mention, I give my clients two choices.
Hire someone with a dozer (hopefully with a brush attachment) or something with a brush clearing head
or Pay more for me to cut it out by hand.
Chiggers and other biting insects really ruin the day.
Not long after my wife and I got married a friend told us to come pick all the blackberries that we wanted. We went to his farm and picked about 5 gallons so she could make jelly. Unfortunately for her the chiggers (red bugs as we in the South call them) ate her up. She had well over 200 bites on her. Anywhere her clothes fit a little tight there was a mass of bites. For some reason I can't get her interested in blackberries anymore.
Andy
Apparently Orlando likes them so much they have a Red Bug Road, AND a Red Bug Park. I guess you can park there and get free red bugs, chiggers or "little bastards" or whatever name you prefer. 😎
JaRo, post: 434357, member: 292 wrote: A cup of PineSol in the bath water and soak for about 10-15 minutes as soon as you get home. If you already have sores like above, then it is too late.
James
An old friend whose a few years older that name talks about his mom putting him in a Pinesol bath as a kid for redbugs. He was raised along the Comite River here in Louisiana.
Redbugs aka Chiggers can be encountered here and can be an annoyance.
But in Arkansas, they were an epidemic. A plague of the lil suckers.
Sort of a ' take no prisoners' scourge
Didn't do pinesol baths but a Clorox bath was recommended once.
Used the store bought Chiggerid stuff but that was not quite as effective as nail polish. But I the end, I discovered that a lil dab of Tiger Balm on the bite was effective in the right places on the body.
Anyway, kind of creepy pictures posted here.
The best thing for chiggers is after you've been in amongst them, take a shower with lye soap. Make sure you rub down pretty good.
An old timer once recommended filling a sock with sulfur and beating it against pant legs as a deterrent, I used that method when I was in the field. It was a good deterrent for ticks as well.
I spray deep woods Off from waist to feet before entering any brush in the warm months. It works for me. But it could also be the build up of deet in my system from 30 years of surveying keeping them off me. I was in some stuff so thick a few weeks ago I got one on my left nipple. Never thought to spray there.
Vicks Vapor Rub or Aloe with Solar Cane will provide temporary relief. I hate them little bastards.
Itch Scale relative to hot peppers.
If a mosquito bite = a jalape?ño then a red bug/chigger bite = a ghost pepper
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BushAxe, post: 434404, member: 11897 wrote: But it could also be the build up of deet in my system from 30 years of surveying keeping them off me
They say that stuff causes cancer..but I don't care how the bugs die
South Arkansas chiggers taught me the hard way that a ounce of prevention is worth a gallon of cure.
Returning tomorrow to the site to find out if any interlopers have decided to take up residence in the absence of the million who went home with me.
Worked with a man that relied upon sulfur tabs and they worked very well.
He reeked of sulfur and was hard to ride in the same truck on some days.
During the months that critters were a problem he would work in the same sulfur sweated overalls for a whole week.
A Harris, post: 434360, member: 81 wrote: Hopefully you can survey and get the monuments location before having to cut the boundary.
When the boundary that needs marked is like you mention, I give my clients two choices.
Hire someone with a dozer (hopefully with a brush attachment) or something with a brush clearing head
or Pay more for me to cut it out by hand.Chiggers and other biting insects really ruin the day.
There is a local landscaper with a mounted brush cutter missing the safety controls... he can clear a lot in no time at all.
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A Harris, post: 434460, member: 81 wrote: Worked with a man that relied upon sulfur tabs and they worked very well.
He reeked of sulfur and was hard to ride in the same truck on some days.
During the months that critters were a problem he would work in the same sulfur sweated overalls for a whole week.
There's a family here who clam together. Mosquitoes and green heads are annoying, so they each drink a shot of vinegar every morning. They smell a little funny, but the bugs stay away...
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Holy Cow, post: 434346, member: 50 wrote: Had a chat earlier this evening with a client who is an absentee landowner selling a bit more than half of an 80-acre tract. The new division line falls along a quarter mile length of hedge and locust trees with much undergrowth that isn't easy to survey through using any of our common methods. That mess of over-sized vegetation is 400 to 600 feet wide.
As I was explaining how the invoice was increasing due to the slow going................and he understood, I added that I had some really, really good news for him. Of course, he wanted to know what that was. I told him, "I took every last chigger in that mess home with me so you won't ever have to worry about them again." He is quite talented at laughing. Perhaps he should apply for a job helping to make laugh tracks for sitcoms.
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For those of you who don't live in chigger country, consider yourselves very fortunate.The following photos are provided to demonstrate the havoc those itty bitty buggers can create. None of the photos are of me, BTW.
I would rather get bee stung or fire ant bit than get chiggers.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
Apparently I succeeded in removing all of the chiggers on the first try. Returned to the site last Thursday and gained not one chigger bite in four hours of exposure. Of course I smelled like someone who had spent 30 minutes in a small closet setting off five full cans of Deep Woods Off.
Now. That damned grapevine. There should be a law against it growing sideways about six inches above ground level in areas with dense vegetation at least waist high. Especially if the unsuspecting visitor to the jungle were carrying fourteen different survey-related tools, including a 10" battery-powered chainsaw. And, most especially, if the unsuspecting visitor is over 25 years of age.
Holy Cow, post: 435014, member: 50 wrote: UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
Apparently I succeeded in removing all of the chiggers on the first try. Returned to the site last Thursday and gained not one chigger bite in four hours of exposure. Of course I smelled like someone who had spent 30 minutes in a small closet setting off five full cans of Deep Woods Off.
Now. That damned grapevine. There should be a law against it growing sideways about six inches above ground level in areas with dense vegetation at least waist high. Especially if the unsuspecting visitor to the jungle were carrying fourteen different survey-related tools, including a 10" battery-powered chainsaw. And, most especially, if the unsuspecting visitor is over 25 years of age.
I call that grapevine "old tanglefoot"...and it is definitely good at living up to its name.