On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

On Oct 18, 5:28*pm, thunder wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote:
Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature
trail. *By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by
Thur night I had obvious bites all over. *Now, I am covered with itchy
welts. *YIKES, redbugs. *I used to be immune to them what's going on
here. *I'd only get a few but this is major. *Now I see why people hated
them so much. *Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am
not.

What are red bugs? *Chiggers?

Chiggers, yup

Try rubbing the bites with ammonia. It's amazingly effective on
mosquito bites.