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Originally Posted by Adriana
Thanks Worth, I'm now thinking that what I have is not chiggers but Oak mites. We had a massive windstorm a few days ago and I spent an hour blowing off lots of "oak worms" and oak leaf debris off the driveway and deck. That's probably how they wound up on the railing. The end result is the same, intense itching, but the affected areas are different from the usual ones for chiggers.
We are also having a bumper crop of ticks this year. My husband took the dog for a walk in the woods and came back with 7 of them. I think I'll stop at Tractor Supply and pick up pyrethrins and sulfur. It looks like we have a bumper crip of poison ivy too so I might as well mix up a lethal cocktail for all of it!
(The mites that burrow under the skin are scabies. True fact, not old wives tale. My daughter had them.)
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You need guineas! They put quite a dent in the tick population,if you can stand the cackling.
I've switched from Frontline to Advantix for the dogs and cats. Fleas seemed to have developed resistance to Frontline around here,it was doing absolutely nothing.