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Chiggers are mites, and they are pretty easily suffocated by oils. DEET is oily. But it's not a chemical insecticide. Alcohol won't do much. Permethrin will kill them.

You're right Boyd, DEET is a repellent only. Permethrin is both a repellent and an insecticide. If I could just find a chemical that's not permethrin that has the repellend and insecticide activity, I could retire. One measly chemical. Great repellents are impossible to find. *sigh*

Yes, permethrin should work to repel and kill chiggers, too.

That sure sounds like lonestar ticks. Those are I think the most common species in the pines.

Well, sure, that's why the scale is there for a reference.

Only the larval ticks are very small. The later larval stages and the adults look like, well, ticks. They aren't ever microscopic, I'd be surprised if a first stage tick larva was smaller than a chigger. Here's a photo of the sizes of the life stages of the deer tick

Badfish, that was a really interesting read. Thanks for taking the time to post it. I am a new resident of the area. We moved to the Glendale section of Ewing two years ago and aren't all that thrilled with it. The house is great, the neighborhood is nice and quiet and the neighbors are...

By the way, the place you will find the most concentrated populations of adult ticks in the pines will be the savannah areas with high grass. They'll climb out on the ends of the grass and wait for you to walk by.

Phew. That's sort of a relief, but sorry you found so many. Check your scalp and your down belows, too. They just get everywhere.

Were the ticks large (adults?) The larval ticks tend to swarm because the eggs are laid in gigantic masses and they all hatch in the same place. When you find one little baby tick on you, it's likely you have more for that reason. If you got all adult ticks on you, God help us all. That...

Aaron, your post is refreshing. I am totally with you.

That's not at all true. Cancer used to be a death sentence. Now, more often than not, it's managed through new drugs and procedures. Devices and surgical procedures have advanced a great deal. People with HIV can now expect to live a normal life span due to protease inhibitors. Depression is...

Big businesses are responsible for bringing illegal immigrants into the country?

We have the Garmin 60CSx, and it's an all around versatile GPS that you can take hiking with you, (waterproof), but you can also natigate in the car with it. Maps are in color and you can load topo and street maps on it. I think we paid like $350 for it including an extra 1 mb memory card.

That nose thing happens with sheep, too. That's interesting.

I've always wanted to find one of those. Cool!

I think deer, like cattle, could live 20 years or more if fed and housed properly. I'd guess they'd live a whole lot longer in captivity. They're pretty rugged critters.