Tiny Bugs Up Close by Janey Levy

Author:Janey Levy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2019-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

MITE-Y CHIGGERS

DID YOU KNOW?

Your skin tries to protect itself from the chigger’s saliva by forming a hard, tubelike structure around the liquid. But this just winds up acting like a straw for the chigger to use to suck up your dissolved cells.

If no-see-ums didn’t cause the itchy bumps that appeared after you spent time outside, chiggers probably did. These invisible creatures are only about 0.007 inch (0.18 mm) long. If you viewed one through a microscope, you would think it was an insect since it has six legs. However, a chigger is really a mite in its larva stage. When it’s grown, it will have eight legs like all arachnids. And it will feed mostly on plants.

Chiggers are red, but not because they suck blood. They use their short, delicate mouthparts to pierce areas of thin skin. A chemical in their saliva dissolves skin cells, and they drink the liquid. If a chigger doesn’t get knocked off, it will continue to feed for 3 or 4 days!

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