Chiggers

[ChickenCanoe]

What are Chiggers?...
I'm in Canada and we don't have those..

Evil things. Our farm where I grew up were overrun with ticks and chiggers. You don't see the chiggers until they've bitten you up one side and down the other, especially ankles and crotch. We'd spend from Friday night to Sunday night and by Monday most of my body itched. By the time it subsided, we would head back to be reinfested.
Ticks, on the other hand you can see and usually pick them off before they get imbedded. Except the seed ticks. Those are from hatches beginning around May. Your leg would brush against a plant and all of a sudden there would be 50 of those pin point size blood suckers spreading across your skin. For their size, they are faster than the adults. Every once in a while, you would find an imbedded tick a few days later.
I guess there is a lot to be said for arctic conditions.

 

[chickens really]

Evil things. Our farm where I grew up were overrun with ticks and chiggers. You don't see the chiggers until they've bitten you up one side and down the other, especially ankles and crotch. We'd spend from Friday night to Sunday night and by Monday most of my body itched. By the time it subsided, we would head back to be reinfested.
Ticks, on the other hand you can see and usually pick them off before they get imbedded. Except the seed ticks. Those are from hatches beginning around May. Your leg would brush against a plant and all of a sudden there would be 50 of those pin point size blood suckers spreading across your skin. For their size, they are faster than the adults. Every once in a while, you would find an imbedded tick a few days later.
I guess there is a lot to be said for arctic conditions.

Well I found out we do get them..Buggers were biting me and my goats. Must be a spring thing. Have died down.