Chiggers-need help

[hopedale]

Sulfur dust in an old tube sock. Dust you feet, ankles, waist, etc.
Then spray with bug spray. You may have to reapply every few hours.

This, otherwise you could get away with just the sulfur in the listed areas.

[CaptainDave]

We just use Deep woods off.

Spray good around the sock line, belt line, neck line, etc.

[Bear Charge]

Spray your socks, boots and pant legs down with deet. Chiggers don't get me now. Ticks...permethrin. Chiggers are an easy fix but only a nusience. Ticks equal illness.

[Top Of Texas]

Off has worked for me, but more importantly, as soon as I get home, I take a shower and scrub with soap and rag.

It takes little chiggers a while to find a good spot and travel there. Then they have to dissolve a hole in you, and build their little straw out of your dissolved skin to suck up your skins cells. They leave their straw behind, and that's what makes you itch the most. The longer they feed, the deeper the straw, the worse amd longer it'll itch.

The key is insect repellent then quickly showering and scrubbing firmly with a rag, all corneres and crevices, and washing the chiggers off before they get their straw built too deep.

Wash all your clothes to prevent hitchhiking and later bites.

[Kevin]

I didn’t read the stuff above but I wear long pants and duct tape my pants to me shoes and then wrap my waist with duct tape above my belt if the grass is high. Does the trick.

[GIL HUNTS]

All the above are effective. You can also put dog flea collars around your boots. Yes, its a bit redneck, but it works.

[cwbow]

I use Deep woods Off. I spray socks, boots and roll up blue Jeans and spray inside and out at bottom of legs. Spray real good from knees down. Spray your waistband

[LFD2037]

No way would I use permethrin if it was going to contact my skin.
Deep woods off and scrub off ASAP.

[CabezaBlanca]

Deep Woods Off for me as well.

[AggieDVM15]

Another Deep Woods off vote. Cover boots, socks, bottom of legs inside jeans, waistband-OUTSIDE JEANS! (Don't get that stuff on the giggleberries or you'll outrun any jackrabbit-trust me; I hate chigger bites there more than the next guy but it was a horrible idea)

[bmiller]

My wife keeps several packets of these on hand at home for the kids and mosquitos.

https://www.amazon.com/Skin-So-Soft-Guard-Picaridin-Towelettes-Count/dp/B001VIT45M

Have started wiping down with these before going to ranch, or anywhere chiggers are, and have not gotten a bite since. Apply directly to skin - they work.

[Rubi513]

I'm curious on how your spraying down with Sawyer Permethrine spray because I've used it in some of the most chigger infested area's and it works perfect. I spray every bit of clothing I will be wearing including my underwear and let it dry. I can even wash those clothes a few times before I need to reapply it. I spray the inside and outside of all my clothes. I no longer buy Sawyers, I by Permethrine and then mix my own because it's way cheaper.

What’s your mixture rate?

[3whunt]

Avon skin so soft oil. Permethrin on your clothes. I grew up picking black berries all summer and skin so soft OIL was the best preventative we ever found. Still use it to this day.

[Wil Taylor]

Thanks guys. I’m going to spread some sulfer around campthe use off on my clothes and see how that does.

[Buckwheat]

Chiggers-need help

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