chigger in English

noun
1
a tiny mite whose parasitic larvae live on or under the skin of warm-blooded animals, where they cause irritation and dermatitis and sometimes transmit scrub typhus.
Other blood feeding insects or mites that may occasionally be pests of poultry include: chigger mites, biting midges, and black flies (turkey gnats).
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1. Chigger, Chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans

2. Origin and meaning of Chigoe: see chigger

3. Berkley Crazy Leg Chigger Craws Price: $4.49

4. Chigger Bites are often extremely itchy, but try not …

5. Chiggers can bite, leaving a rash often known as a chigger rash

6. Chigger Bites look like small red, raised marks that may resemble a pimple

7. It is sometimes also called jigger, jigger flea, or, improperly, chigger, although a chigger is a mite, a different kind of animal pest. Chigoes are smaller than common fleas but otherwise resemble them.

8. To treat chigger Bites, you'll use the same treatment methods as with other common Bites

9. The chigger buries herself under the skin with the tip of her abdomen remaining outside.

10. As nouns the difference between Chigoe and chigger is that Chigoe is a small tropical flea, (taxlink), whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores while chigger is a Chigoe (tunga penetrans ), a kind of flea found in tropical climates or chigger can be (slangus) derogatory term for an

11. Chigger bites and scabies are two conditions that cause itchy skin.; Scabies is an infestation of the skin by a mite (Sarcoptes scabiei).; Chiggers are the juvenile forms of a mite (Trombiculidae) that bite humans and feed on human skin.; A chigger may feed through the stylostome (feed tube) for up to a few days

12. Chigger Bites can happen anywhere on your body, but they often show up in clusters around the waist or lower legs

13. Also called chigger, sand flea Tunga penetrans, family Tungidae ‘He's blasé about all the usual stuff - typhoid fever, malaria, Chigoes, bots, scabies, and leeches.’

14. The Acari is a diverse group comprising the lineages Acariformes (includes disease-transmitting chigger mites) and Parasitiformes (includes ticks and other medically important mites)

15. Instead, Chiggers pierce the skin and inject saliva into the bite, which contains a powerful digestive enzyme that essentially breaks down the affected skin, so the chigger can feed on it.

16. Tunga penetrans: ( tŭng'gă pen'ĕ-tranz ), A member of the flea family, Tungidae , commonly known as chigger flea, sand flea, Chigoe, or jigger; the minute female penetrates the skin, frequently under the toenails; as she becomes distended with eggs to about pea size, a painful ulcer with inflammation develops at the site