Let’s get ready for chigger season!!
I thought it would be nice to revive this old thread.
I got my first dose of those little bastards yesterday doing some survey fieldwork almost around the corner from where I live.
Doing a 2.5 acre boundary with about 30% of it being knee high grasses and low shrub growth. I knew I was somewhat doomed when I realized that my field guy hadn’t maintained our usual stock of deep woods off in the truck. I really should have gone back to my house for more spray.
I sprayed what little we had around my pant cuffs and under the cuffs around the tops of my work boots. We spent about two hours in the grass and before we left, I felt them starting to go to work.
Tonight, I am applying some floucinolone, a potent prescription steroid ointment that I use for eczema to help with the itch. When I go to bed tonight . I’ll be putting on Sarna, a smelly but effective OTC itch medication consisting of camphor oil and menthol.
I can’t help but feel good about how many millions of chiggers might have died in the recent fire.