It’s summertime in Florida and that brings many wonderful things like long days at the beach, pool, lake or one of the state’s thousands of freshwater springs. But summer also brings more bugs, and ...

That cluster of itchy red bumps on your skin is probably chiggers.

Chiggers, also known as trombiculidae, are a species of red mite that live outdoors in grassy or wooded areas near water, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Like spiders and ticks, they are also ...

Treat the grass: First, keep your lawn mowed. Chiggers climb up vegetation to wait for passing hosts. Keeping your lawn cut short can discourage this. Also, you can treat your yard with outdoor sprays ...

Insects, bugs, spiders and other arachnids are around all year. But now that spring is here, their activity is ramping up. Common outdoor creepy crawlies in Missouri can include ticks, mosquitoes and ...

This time of year many outdoor enthusiasts may find themselves with an itchy rash from a microscopic harvest mite or a red bug. This mite is more commonly known as the chigger. Chiggers are not bugs ...

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 ...