Great News If You're A Pine Barrens Hiker

[Old Crazy]

The Weather Channel is predicting a low of 30 degrees on Friday morning. You know what that means? BUH-BYE CHIGGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Chatsworth NJ USNJ0085:1:US

 

[dogg57]

Chiggers become inactive in cool temperatures, and they cannot survive at all in temperatures cooler than 42 degrees Fahrenheit (F).(So They say)
Thats Great news for all!!

 

[Gibby]

I hope my truck gets cold enough to deactivate these devil spawn. They have hitch hiked a one way ride into my vehicle and over stayed their welcome. I find random bites on me every couple of days. The shop-vac made my interior clean but did very little in removing the stragglers.

 

[dogg57]

Time to spray inside your truck. Aerosol Permethrin - intended to be sprayed on clothing. Permethrin is used in the various head lice shampoos and on the bug proof clothing offered. Permethrin will kill them.

 

[kayak karl]

,but will it kill the Mutant Ninja Chiggers

 

[dogg57]

Sure Thing

 

[Old Crazy]

I put a bug bomb in my truck once to kill chiggers. Then I spent the next half hour trying to calm passersby who thought that my truck was on fire. Man, you should have seen all the white smoke pouring out of it. Word quickly spread throughout the chigger kingdom to stay the hell out of my truck!

 

[pineywoman]

Hahaha!! Of course Old Crazy..WOW you REALLY live up to your name!

 

[piker56]

Ah, I can hear their screams now. It's payback time for the dozens and dozens of bites I've gotten this year from the varmint cong chiggers!

 

[Gibby]

I just finished by chemical warfare campaign with a fine coating of Sawyer's to the interior of my truck. Perme and the cold should finish them off. Of course, I will probably bring in the next batch of torment tomorrow after hiking. The joys of the Pines!

 

[Boyd]

BUH-BYE CHIGGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you're right, but I'm going to continue taking precautions for a few more days at least. I don't think we had much frost here last night, tonight should be colder though.

Now if we could only get some rain down here in the the Sahara of the Pines; it's really dry. We had several days of cloudy, threatening weather but no measurable rain.

 

[pineywoman]

Can't wait to get out and explore more. Thanks for the Chigger weather report, my friends!

 

[Teegate]

My car windows were frozen when I went out this morning. I covered my Lima Beans with an old quilt but it looks like some of them along the edge were open to the elements this morning. I may have to do some picking.

 

[46er]

34F, no frost yet. But soon; very, very soon.

And then the final nail in their coffin, and lots of nails this winter

 

[Boyd]

32 here this morning. Lots of crickets chirping last night and this morning; would a hard frost stop them?

I don't think we will see any scenes like that for awhile 46er. Warmer nights coming for the next week.

 

[dogg57]

32 here this morning. Lots of crickets chirping last night and this morning; would a hard frost stop them?

I don't think we will see any scenes like that for awhile 46er. Warmer nights coming for the next week.

Yes on the Crickets stopping
http://www.snopes.com/science/cricket.asp

 

[Old Crazy]

When it's late July in the pines and 20 deer flies are circling my head, gnats are diving into my eyes, sweat is rolling down my cheeks and I'm avoiding stepping on weeds like they're land mines because I know any one of them could be housing a hundred chiggers hoping to dine on me for lunch, I dream about a day like today.

I set out about 8am to do a round trip hike on the Batona Trail from Carranza to Quaker Bridge. What an absolutely gorgeous day to hike. Temperatures were in the low 30's as I hit the trail, bright sunshine, the air was crisp, clean, refreshing and dead still. The woods was quiet and peaceful. The section of the Batona Trail from Carranza to Quaker Bridge contains a lot of stretches where tree branches and the underbrush have encroached on the trail and are constantly rubbing against you as you're hiking. I am happy to report that I did not find one tick or one chigger on me today (clothes and shoes were treated with permethrin)

 

[pineywoman]

Yay!! Post some pics Old Crazy if you have them! Would love to see and glad you had a most excellent time!!

 

[kayak karl]

Old Crazy; that is a nice section. i think there are more fallen trees then any other section.
have you hiked the new section yet??

 

[Gibby]

Yesterday morning I was in the area of Rockwood and along the Mullica until noon. I don't have a single bite on me, even though I was in grasses knee and waist high for hours.. The cold Friday night and the cooler temperatures Saturday probably just slowed them down for a moment. We are going to have more seasonal weather this week. I don't think we are in the clear just yet.