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Post by Hardcorehunter on Sept 7, 2006 21:36:55 GMT -5
In my scouting adventures today I forgot my deet spray. I had at least 1000 little ticks on me. I guess baby ticks or chiggers. I'm not really sure. I had to take off my pants and socks and leave them in the field. I prayed I didn't get pulled over on the way home. Can chiggers be seen or are they too small?
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Post by BuckMaster on Sept 7, 2006 21:53:42 GMT -5
Trust me, I know all about chiggers!!! Get them every year early season hunting. They are chiggers. They are very small and they burrow into your skin and lay eggs (ewww...) Thats where the itching comes in. Sometimes I like the itch.... ;D
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Sept 8, 2006 11:28:55 GMT -5
SOUND LIKE CHIGGERS TO ME!!!!!!! Those things really stink - itching and itching until your skin is raw! Hope you got them all off.
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Sept 8, 2006 16:48:10 GMT -5
Got em all off. They stayed with the pants. Some one had once told me chiggers were too small to see.  ? Anyways no itching. |
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Post by BIG FOX on Sept 20, 2006 11:29:19 GMT -5
Chiggers suck, i felt them on me one time and ran my hand down my pant leg and it was covered with 1000's of those little turds. my legs were on fire apparently i had them on me longer than i thought and it was too late by the time i got to the shower... that is the bad thing about early season you have to deal with the little biting buggies.. i hate the sounds of a mosquito buzzing around yoru ear and then that sudden stop when you know it landed on you... ewwwwwwwww i hate bugs... but i love taking out deer so there is a trade off...
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Sept 20, 2006 15:06:41 GMT -5
I got a therma-cell mosquito repellant last year. Works in even the buggiest conditions. Worth a little itching to score a deer.
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Post by tuckcut on Jan 31, 2007 14:41:06 GMT -5
Trust me, I know all about chiggers!!! Get them every year early season hunting. They are chiggers. They are very small and they burrow into your skin and lay eggs (ewww...) Thats where the itching comes in. Sometimes I like the itch.... ;D Actually, they are injecting an enzyme into you to kill a few cells, then they ingest the dead cells and fall off. The little ones you see by the 1000's are the adult stage chigger, they'll ruin your day, but it's the larvae stage chigger that ends up getting you most of time. And you can't see them in that stage... I live and hunt on the chigger infested Eastern Shore, and since researching them and publishing an article on them, I (knocking on wood) haven't gotten them since. The key is PERMETHRIN spray to the closes...... Does anyone know if the permacell works on chiggers? They seem to work well on mosquitos.... |
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Post by osprey on Jan 31, 2007 19:24:25 GMT -5
The Therma-cell shouldn't help much with chiggers, it takes 15 minutes or so to build up the zone of protection and by then they'd have you, although I imagine they'd gag on a Caroline County boy...
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Jan 31, 2007 20:57:05 GMT -5
Deet had always worked well also. Not the spraycan stuff. I use a pump spray with high deet content. But it might cause cancer in lab rats of something.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Jan 31, 2007 21:00:09 GMT -5
Can the deer smell it? ?? |
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Feb 1, 2007 21:11:29 GMT -5
Probably so. But they would also smell my sweaty body from walking to my stand. If you hunt the wind in your favor you could get away with the smell and keep the bugs AWAY.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Feb 1, 2007 21:13:29 GMT -5
Good point hardcore. Guess we need helicopter lifts to our stands to really keep the scent down.
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Post by busco on Feb 1, 2007 21:23:59 GMT -5
have not had chiggers since i was a kid! clear nail polish definately your friend!!!!! never had a problem eith ticks just one or two here or there
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Post by tuckcut on Feb 3, 2007 22:33:28 GMT -5
The Therma-cell shouldn't help much with chiggers, it takes 15 minutes or so to build up the zone of protection and by then they'd have you, although I imagine they'd gag on a Caroline County boy... Nothin but Caroline county mud running thru these vanes! |
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Post by brandon on Feb 15, 2007 14:28:26 GMT -5
Ive had chiggers 4 or 5 times, but Ive never "seen" them. Are you sure what he was seeing wasnt "sea ticks"? They are like regular dog ticks, but extremley small like pepper and there are always 1000 of them on you if you have them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_mite |
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? Anyways no itching.
