Chiggers and bedbugs are not the same thing at all. Chiggers are microscopic and prefer grasslands and weedy unirrigated areas for their home, while bed bugs are 1/4 inch and prefer living in cracks and crevices of pretty much anything - walls, mattresses, the folds of curtains, etc.
Chiggers inject a digestive juice that dissolves skin cells so they can more easily eat the skin (eww, gross).
Bedbugs prefer blood to skin - and can get to be as big as a large ladybug after having their fill. Howard has said that it is real easy to tell the difference in terms of an infestation - if you have chiggers - you're not going to see them, only feel their bite - but if you have bed bugs you will not only have irritated bites, but little blood spatters and fecal smears on your sheets and pillow cases, at which time - if I ever experienced such, I would run screaming from my bedroom and torch the place, then have a nice scrub with a high pressure hose and a brillo pad.....what? I love nature, really.
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