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chigger
[ chig-er ]
noun
- Also called harvest mite, redbug. the six-legged larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on humans and other vertebrates, sucking blood and causing severe itching and acting as a vector of scrub typhus and other infectious diseases.
chigger
/ ˈʃɪɡə /
noun
- Also calledchigoeredbug the parasitic larva of any of various free-living mites of the family Trombidiidae, which causes intense itching of human skin
- another name for the chigoe
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The IgE-mediated allergy is triggered after repeated bites from ticks or chigger mites that have bitten those mammals.
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Q: My garden is full of chiggers, and the itch from the bites drives me crazy.
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While Suah does not know with certainty which bug is causing his patients so much distress, he said they are similar in appearance to bites from chiggers or oak mites.
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He even imagines a local doctor dissecting the chigger, the smallest creature visible to the human eye—and thus of course impossible to dissect.
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If 2020 were a camping trip, the poison ivy would have chiggers on it.
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