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UK
/tʃˈɪɡɐ/
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NOUN
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans
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- Feeding by the chigger creates scabby, reddish lesions that require two to three weeks to heal after the engorged mites leave the bird.
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- The mite, Mr. Snow informed her, was called a chigger—he advised her to apply mud poultices to her itching legs, a remedy Tasmin adopted with some reluctance, since it rather cut against her vanity. The Berrybender Narratives
- Not only does it repel mosquitoes, but it repels ticks, chiggers, fleas, and flies, too.
- Various parasites such as lice, ticks, mites, aphides and chiggers attack untreated and unprotected animals and plants.
- Conclusion It provides direct evidence at molecular level for the role of chigger mite as a vector in transmission of HFRSV with theoretical and practical importance in prevention of HFRS.
- Other blood feeding insects or mites that may occasionally be pests of poultry include: chigger mites, biting midges, and black flies (turkey gnats).
- Deet protects troops on the ground from mosquitoes, deer ticks, biting flies, chiggers, fleas and other insects.
- Chiggers often are covered with dense, feathered hairs that give them a velvety appearance.