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Post by cweston on Nov 5, 2015 12:18:00 GMT -8
The conditions were apparently ideal for them in this part of the country (Kansas). The bugs themselves are microscopic, but they leave a nasty welty, itchy bite. I've had them off and on for several weeks now. (I walk to work on tree-lined streets, so I'm getting frequent exposure.)
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Post by Lonewolf on Nov 5, 2015 19:55:41 GMT -8
Sounds like chiggers.
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Post by cweston on Nov 5, 2015 20:03:26 GMT -8
Yeah, it's very similar to chigger bites, but you tend to get them on your upper body, because the mites fall out of the trees onto people.
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Post by BigLoad on Nov 5, 2015 20:21:59 GMT -8
We have countless oak trees, but no mites as far as I know.
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Post by Lonewolf on Nov 6, 2015 3:50:42 GMT -8
Oh great. Live in an oak tree area in the south and get little nasties chewing on both ends.  |
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Post by tallgrass on Nov 7, 2015 18:54:54 GMT -8
Not really a biting pest, but we had hackberry gall psylids this fall. Big hackberry in our back yard. They cling to the outside of our house. Dang boogers are so small they go right through window screens. Many a fall day this year we couldn't open our windows.
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Post by lancer on Nov 11, 2015 10:44:41 GMT -8
Yeah, they are thick in KC. Less itchy and more painful than chiggers. I'll be glad when we get a hard frost.
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Post by ecocentric on Nov 13, 2015 17:08:23 GMT -8
They are like chiggers on steroids. People here often call them turkey mites, which is also a common misnomer for baby ticks. They aren't bad in the mixed hardwood forests but if you spend any time in the barrens where post oaks grow, they will eat you alive.
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Post by rebeccad on Nov 13, 2015 17:37:33 GMT -8
Boy, am I not sorry I don't live in that part of the country!
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