Also called harvest mite, redbug. the six-legged larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on humans and other vertebrates, sucking blood and causing severe itching and acting as a vector of scrub typhus and other infectious diseases.
The body spray is made with 20 percent picaridin and protects you against mosquitos, ticks, gnats, chiggers, sand flies, biting flies, and no-see-ums for eight to twelve hours.
While Suah does not know with certainty which bug is causing his patients so much distress, he said they are similar in appearance to bites from chiggers or oak mites.
Loomis in his study of the chigger mites of Kansas examined many of the racers captured in the early years of my field work.
The racer is an important host of the common pest chigger, Trombicula alfreddugsi, which often attacks humans.
Four species of the chigger genus Trombicula have been recorded on racers from the Reservation.
It is a host and carrier of various parasites, including at least one species that regularly attacks humans—the common chigger.
What was most aggravating were two pests of that region, the seed-tick and the chigger.