Redbug

Usage examples of chigger.

Half an hour later, they left Chigger to dig for files and ride Matrix overwatch, and Ryan to guard the decker while he worked.

It was also a time of frenzy for the chiggers and bloodsucking flies, thus requiring the fish to be fried inside the hot, smelly trailer.

The Andalusians would have them if they ignored Chigger, and this rough boy would waste them if they ignored him.

The bent end was concave and sprouted four blunt metal prongs about a quarter of an inch long, making it look like the mouthparts of a tremendously magnified chigger.

He cursed, grabbed for the control handle, but before he could swing the shield, a section of lawn the size of a street manhole lifted like a trapdoor behind the chigger and in the full glare of the handlight.

They stowed the fellow in a utility closet, and waited for Chigger to signal that he had overridden the lock.

While Kham was convincing Chigger to do as the metal man said, the rough boy popped open a panel in his chest plate and pulled out a jack.

Then he cut the connection, leaving Chigger to do what had to be done.

Riding the life-sparks of capemoths, of rhizan, of crickets and chigger fleas, of roving blood-flies.

Rhizan flitted in a frenzied wild hunt through the clouds of capemoths and chigger fleas above the tent city sprawled in the ruins.

Countless un-nameable chiggers and midges festering about the cheeks and ankles.

Judith checked his neck for ticks and chiggers, then tucked in his netting.

Earth with mosquitoes, chiggers, and other pests since no one yet had anything to wear.

He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae—and countless unnatural mutations of them all.

He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae -- and countless unnatural mutations of them all.