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By Meredith Gorfein •2* Rappahannock News Writer
There are only four good things about chiggers: they ■are horrible only in the larval stage, they don’t transWit diseases, there is usually only one generation per year ?fi our area, and it is possible to protect against them by -altaying inside from late Spring through summer or by using repellents from top to •the and never walking on or near grass.
“Probably no creature on «'arth can cause as much torment for its size than the tiny chigger,” according to William Lyon in the Ohio 'State University Extension ‘Fact Sheet. 'r'.' It is in the larval stage tdiat they get us. The larva is liairy, orange-yellow or light red, has six legs and at 1/150 inches in diameter, a microscope is needed to see these critters.
Popular lore says that Sniggers burrow under the
^fkin and feed on blood. One myth even has chiggers con'tinuing to burrow about through the skin until killed. ,In fact, the way they work is To catch a ride on us as we pass by. They wander about briefly looking for just the right spot. Then before you know it, they pierce the skin ahd secrete digestive “ehzymes which break down the skin cells. The chiggers feed on the fluids from the rhptured skin cells for about four days until they are fully engorged at which point they fall off.
What they leave behind is a hard red welt that itches beyond description. The intense itching lasts for several days and because it is impossible to avoid scratch
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