Chiggers are small mites causing intense itching, but are easily preventable by understanding their habits. These mites ...

Was it a chigger or scabies bite? These mite bites both result in itching, but that's where the similarities end. Here's what ...

Chiggers do not burrow under your skin, and they do not suck your blood. They do pierce your skin with their mouth and produce an enzyme in their saliva that dissolves nearby skin cells.

If you've ever had an itchy rash on your skin a few hours after walking through the woods or tall grass, you might have encountered chiggers. Chiggers can be yellow or red, but they're very small ...

Chiggers are a type of mite, or arthropod, in the family Trombiculidae. They are extremely small red bugs that measure about 1/60th of an inch — barely visible with the naked eye — and you'd ...

Chigger bites Chiggers are a type of mite that are nearly impossible to see without a magnifying glass. Only baby chiggers bite humans, and they can grasp on to you when you're outdoors around ...

We were worse than toddlers, clumsy and ignorant of basic dangers, like microscopic isangos (chiggers) that set up house in ...

Sheath yourself in one of these when you tackle outdoor projects or weekend chores. These are our favorite styles from Filson ...

The number of patients suffering from scrub typhus, a disease caused by a bacterial pathogen called "Orientia tsutsugamushi," has increased eightfold over the past three weeks, pr ...

A surge in cases of scrub typhus at the end of October has prompted the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency to advise caution to avoid contact with mites. There were 312 cases of scrub typhus ...

The jacket is light enough to wear layered with either a regular or thermal undershirt beneath a flannel, or a fleece hoodie; the tight weave of the tin cloth fends off chiggers, thorns, and helps to ...

Of his winning shot, he says, 'I love the contrast between the simplicity of the shot and the complexity of the behaviour.' Lying on the ground to take the shot, he also discovered the behaviour of ...