Chigger in a sentence as a noun

Could it have been a chigger bite, perhaps?

I have 18 acres I don't mow, and don't live on. Though the house I do live in, in suburbia, I keep that lawn mowed to keep the chiggers at bay.

Best treatment was to take as hot a shower as possible [The only thing better than sex is steaming hot water on chigger bites - it's like the Scratch of God].

Personally, I’ve been having more trouble with chiggers than ticks, but infected ticks are always that lurking nightmare scenario.

We two were apparently the only mammals within miles as every chigger available mobilized to fulfill its Darwinian destiny.

Why didn't _I_ get a prednisone pill instead of a tub of corticosteroid lard?As for chiggers: in college I got a serious case of chiggers from a romantic blanket evening in the Texas desert.

Chigger definitions

noun

small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans

See also: chigoe

noun

larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

See also: jigger redbug