Dear Doctors: Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. My wife does not garden and is rarely bitten. My son worked with me last weekend and said they don’t bother him.
Why not? When we took a walk later, I got bitten again.
Dear Reader: “Chiggers” is the name given to an early life stage of trombiculidae, a species of parasitic mite so …