Facts About Chiggers

• Chiggers (even though they’re called redbugs) aren’t actually insects. They’re juvenile mites, more closely related to ticks.
• Tiny chiggers can live 50 to 70 days. Egg-laying female chiggers can live as long as a year, producing countless offspring.
• Most people think that chiggers burrow under the skin. Actually, they’re just so tiny, they’re hard to see.
• Because they love warm, moist environments, chiggers often migrate to underarms, ankles, knees and wastebands.
• Chiggers pierce the skin and inject powerful digestive enzymes that liquefy the flesh which the chigger consumes. These enzymes cause rashes and intense itching.
• Chiggers tend to gather in large numbers on leaves and other vegetation, so that several usually attach to the host.
• In scientific tests, topic pain and skin irritation due to chigger bites disappeared within minutes when Chigger Chaser® treatment was directly applied to the area of the bite.
• Chigger Chaser® contains the maximum over-the-counter dosage of lidocaine, the same ingredient that hospitals use to treat burn patients.