Speaking of chiggers, when my father moved to Texas after retirement, one of the first things he did was take his shoes off on a golf course to look for a lost ball in the weeds a small creek. Yep...he had severe case of itching chigger bites for a month or so.
Yep, they are nasty and persistent buggers. I wound up putting clear nail polish on my shins to suffocate them. Then I had reddish discolored patches on my shins for quite a while afterward.