Chigger

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Chigger or chigoe can refer to either of two parasitic arthropods with similar behaviors:

• the chigoe flea (Tunga penetrans), found in tropical climates
• the larva of a harvest mite that, when carrying a tiny parasite called Orentia tsutsugamushi, causes scrub typhus. The larvae are also called scrub mite, red mite and several other names, and they are found throughout temperate and tropical zones; the name chigger originated as a corruption of chigoe, but the harvest mite is what is most commonly called a chigger in North America.

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