When you get a chigger on your skin, it will spend hours looking for a good place to go. They have these little, tiny mouth parts and don't pierce skin very easily. There's something called the questing response, which is another hilarious term. And finally, they have sensory organs on their body to help them find each other.
Chiggers are tiny little mites capable of making your life miserable. Worse than mosquitoes? Maybe. But they aren't insects - mites are actually part of the arachnid family and behave a little like ticks. Learn all about these nearly invisible pests in this classic episode.
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