Here in the Florida Panhandle we call them red bugs. You can pretty much keep them off by using Off or any other brand.
If you do get bit, you can kill them with salty meat grease. Then you can ease the itching with cortisone cream.
Red Bugs (Chiggers) are easy to avoid ... tuck your pants/socks... they don’t crawl much (not like Ticks)
Once Chiggers find flesh they break their beak and you get to scratch. Now how the hell them lil buggers find my crotch I will never know... but CDC and Entomologists say that Chiggers just latch on and don’t crawl.
Ticks ... I hatem almost as much as I hate Obama
Chiggers (Red Bugs) ... I hatem almost as much as I hate Obama
(trying to keep my street cred up with the NSA)
Salty meat grease? I haven’t heard that one, thanks. I definitely purchased a bottle of Off:)