chiggers

chiggers suck. i cannot be any more eloquent when speaking about them.

i have a few chigger bites from sunday's mtb race. i don't really know of any time that i was around vegetation that would have let the little bast...er, bugs... get a hold of me. except when i took a digger on lap two.

i have a bite next to my right eye. a couple on my neck. one on my right forearm. one on my left man-breast. and two on my left shin. i'm pretty sure the mouth parts, as illustrated above, are responsible for my discomfort.

they are not so bad as to make me want to murder anyone. but, they are enough to make me want to commit genocide on the chigger population of missouri and surrounding states that i may venture into.