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Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:50 pm**

The cure for chiggers is fingernail polish! Smother those little bastards!

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:55 pm**

i thought "having chiggers" meant that you just had a rash until about 2 months ago. no clue it was actually an insect.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:56 pm**

Actually, it's not (the cure). They don't really burrow into the skin. They leave behind a little suck tube and some digestive juice that causes the irritation. At least that's what it says on the internet so it must be true.

http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nat ... /chiggers/

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:15 am**

Actually they stop where they run into tight clothing so when you're wearing a harness...

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:48 am**

All ticks must die. Thankfully, you can usually find them before they burrow. Now that is one nasty insect.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:42 pm**

I have plucked a tick off my leg, thown it on the ground, squashed it with my boot and the thing still just walked away. Does it take a hammer?

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:25 pm**

J.J. uses a hammer drill on the ticks. It is quite effective!

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:59 pm**

When I was little my mom used to kill the ticks that bit us and put them in a jar in the freezer just incase we came down with some deadly disease and we could trace it back to the ticks...how redneck is that!

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:22 pm**

we made sausage out of the ticks that fill up with beagle blood.mmmmm.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:29 pm**

when the ticks invade your groin area, we nicknamed it the TCU...the Tick Collecting Unit

so going from from a road trip, the question was "did you check your TCU?"

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