Summer is here, and just as we are shedding layers and welcoming the sunshine, insects are lining up to feast on our flesh.

Ticks are awful, but chiggers in many ways are as bad if not worse. You can see ticks, even in the tiny larval phase to which we often refer to as seed ticks. It's easy to hate a malignancy that we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clusters of chigger bites like this are often referred to as chigger rash, and are common on the ankles. As if all the biting bugs ...

Summertime is high season for bug bites and itchy rashes. Chiggers, also called harvest mites and red bugs, are particularly small arachnids that leave an annoying rash that can easily become infected ...

Once a month, Life & Arts taps into the many questions received and answered by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. A: Chiggers are tiny larvae members of the arachnid family and are ...

After a particularly energetic weekend of pulling weeds, pruning and hauling displaced flora from the yard in late May, I realized the shabby shorts I had worn must have come in contact with some ...