Kim Isbill, age 9, of Wichita, Kansas for the question:

What form of 1ife is a chigger ?

Andy can find no good word at all for this wretched little insect pest. The chigger, alias jigger, the red bug and the harvest mite is a hungry insect, usually too small for our eyes to see, As a rule, it attacks humans when it is in the larva stage and crawls into a skin pore, There it feeds, causing an irritating rash. The grown female may lay her eggs in the skin and this may cause a. sore or even an infection.

The chigger is classed as an insect mite, It is a round red creature with a crusty coat. In the wild, it attacks many small animals, We are likely to come across it in a weedy, grassy field or in a scrubby pasture.