These 40 ways to avoid prevent painful chigger bites focus on not letting chiggers eat your skin cells, which they dissolve with digestive enzymes that causes the insane itching. Chigger bites itch incessantly, and itch far worse than mosquito, flea, and bed bug bites combined.
Chigger larvae attach themselves to hosts to feed by inserting minute mouth parts into skin, usually at hair follicles.
