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How to control chigger bites
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Clark MacAllister
Updated: Jun 7, 2017, 5:00 AM
Published: Jun 6, 2017, 1:42 PM
Have you ever walked through your yard or hiked through the woods only to return with red, itchy bumps? These are most likely caused by red mites, commonly called "chiggers." Summer is the most common time for chigger bites.
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Guest column: The climate crisis, an existential threat
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Published: Aug 6, 2021, 4:00 PM
An article in the January 2020 journal BioScience, endorsed by more than 11,000 scientists worldwide, stated that “the climate crisis has arrived” and that an “immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis.”
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