Subj : Re: Chiggers To : alt.tv.farscape From : Rick Savoia Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 20:58:23 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John Iwaniszek wrote in news:Xns96CACC4489992joiwhnanri@66.26.32.8: > Excuse me. "Chigras". > > > I am chigger-bit up one side and down the other. I have never been > this afflicted in my life. > > The weird thing about chiggers is that they are not evolved to feed > off of humans. Their natural prey are birds and reptiles, and thier > saliva developed to anesthetize the animal's skin against the > irritation of being disolved and sipped by a micron sized arthropod. > Being able to irritate the living hell out of humans is just gravy. We irritate the hell out of humans trying to post on topic here. Does that make us some sort of chigger? -- "I'm just very selective about the reality I accept" -- Calvin .