TROUBLE WITH CHIGGERS

From: New Orleans Magazine | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Summertime and the redbugs are biting

"They call them chiggers up there in Virginia. Down here we call them redbugs. In Alabama they call them 'little red sons of bitches,'" says fabric wholesaler Rue Morrison, quoting from his second Bible. His impeccable source is a boyhood copy of Havilah Babcock's classic on hunting and fishing in the South, My Health is Better in November.

Grits and chiggers both cover the South, but chiggers stick to the sticks. Chiggers are the bane of summer picnickers, campers, hikers and anyone else who spends even a few minutes in high grass or wooded areas of the ...

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