What is "chiggers"

Usage examples of "chiggers".

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 was wearing jeans and a long-sleeved shirt, buttoned up to the neck you don't wander Virginia's woods with your muscles bared, not if you have any concern about poison ivy, mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers and brambles.