On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:53:14 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:03:16 -0400, Proprietario di Guzzi penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|The only good news is that their bite causes their death.

Not hardly... unless you mean that you can then locate them and kill
them.

Maybe I misread:

"The time required for a chigger to complete its meal varies with the
location of the bite, the host and the species. If undisturbed,
chiggers commonly take three or four days, and sometimes longer, to
eat their dinner. This is not surprising when you consider that this
is the first and last meal of the young chigger's life."

From:

http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/arthopo/chiggers/


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John H

"BEND OVER - The 'change' is coming!"