JUST ITCHING TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT PESKY CHIGGERS

Evansville Courier & Press | August 20, 2005| | Copyright

Chiggers! Say it like Jerry used to say the name of his fiendish archnemesis Newman on "Seinfeld."

"Newman!"

Chiggers!

They must be the itchiest creatures on Earth. If I had been filming a movie in the last few months, it would have been named something like "Season of the Chiggers" or maybe "The Chiggers of Summer." Maybe I could have just called it "Chiggers," kind of like Hitchcock's "The Birds."

How can something that can hardly be seen by the naked eye cause so much misery?

I've been bitten so many times by those darned chiggers this summer that I decided to go online and do a little ...

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