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chigger
[ chig-er ]
noun
- Also called harvest mite, redbug. the six-legged larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on humans and other vertebrates, sucking blood and causing severe itching and acting as a vector of scrub typhus and other infectious diseases.
chigger
/ ˈtʃɪɡə /
noun
- Also calledchigoeredbug the parasitic larva of any of various free-living mites of the family Trombidiidae, which causes intense itching of human skin
- another name for the chigoe
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Loomis in his study of the chigger mites of Kansas examined many of the racers captured in the early years of my field work.
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The racer is an important host of the common pest chigger, Trombicula alfreddugsi, which often attacks humans.
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Four species of the chigger genus Trombicula have been recorded on racers from the Reservation.
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It is a host and carrier of various parasites, including at least one species that regularly attacks humans—the common chigger.
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What was most aggravating were two pests of that region, the seed-tick and the chigger.
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