chigoe or jigger, small parasitic flea of tropical America and the S United States. Humans and their domestic animals are the main hosts. The fertilized female bores into the flesh (usually of the feet or legs) and feeds on the blood causing a painful, pustulous sore. She retains her eggs in her abdomen, which swells to the size of a pea. The eggs are expelled outside the host and hatch in the soil, undergoing complete metamorphosis. The chigoe is sometimes confused with the chigger . The chigoe is classified in the phylum Arthropoda , class Insecta, order Siphonaptera.
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BUG OF THE MONTH.(Brief Article)
Geographical; 1/1/2000; 162 words;
... may not be able to fly, but the tiniest of the thousand species of fleas still gets around. The jigger flea (also called the chigoe, chigger, or sand flea) is capable of jumping up to 600 times an hour when it's looking for food. Visitors to tropical parts ...
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Biology and impacts of Pacific Island invasive species. 1. A worldwide review of effects of the small Indian mongoose, Herpestes javanicus (Carnivora: herpestidae) (1).
Pacific Science; 1/1/2007; Hays, Warren S.T. Conant, Sheila; 7587 words;
... introduction of mongooses, to introduce ferrets (Mustela putorius) to Jamaica, but these attempts also failed, purportedly due to chigoes ( burrowing fleas [Tunga penetrans]) (Hinton and Dunn 1967). The range of the small Indian mongoose on the South American mainland ...
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On yer jigger, Fat Owl of the Remove!
The Independent - London; 6/14/1996; Miles Kington; 674 words;
... A golf club, usually a 4 iron; 3. A 11/2 oz whisky measure; 4. A kind of sieve used for sifting ore; 5. Another word for a chigoe, the insect that burrows in your flesh; 6. A runabout truck on a a railway line (but only in New Zealand); 7. A device used ...
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A Time to Remember.(Short story)
Kola; 3/22/2007; Goddard, Horace I.; 20772 words;
... You've got to believe me. Down here you get news life a bush fire. Like a fire the truth ... child and placed gently in a grave. So the news of my father's death didn't shatter my ... agent. I called Barbados following the news of Daddy's death. Hi, Eunice! Hi, brother ...
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