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We've got em here pretty thick, seems they've always been thick and there's different kinds of them as well. I've been pulling the pesky critters off my parts(if ya get my drift) ever since my pup days, and knock on wood, never had a problem other that that bump and itch.

Several of my neighbors have had some different tick born diseases over the past few years though, and they have suffered because of them, sure makes one wary of ticks.

I do not believe I've heard of anyone that went through the kind of hell you did though.

I remember when I was a farm kid sitting in church on a Sunday morning and felt, usually a Chigger, 'just gnawing away' on my little privates. Boy, I seemed to squirm and think how I was really going to scratch when Mom carried us back home after the service
It is of little consequence in light of the misery Chiggers caused me growing up, but in later studies of biology I was interested to understand what we call 'Chiggers', or 'Red Bugs',is a common name for the immature form of the Human Mite. The adults actually don't bother people but the young stage of the mite has to have a 'blood meal' in order to mature. I'm sure this is more than anyone wanted to know.


Best Regards
Jim Moose

As thick as the woods were when we visited Alaska a while back, I told Marlo this would look like prime tick country in Arkansas, but they have narry a one up there, or snakes either.