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  2. Tunga penetrans - Wikipedia

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    Tunga penetrans is a species of flea also known as the jigger, jigger flea, chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea. It is a parasitic insect found in most tropical and sub-tropical climates. In its parasitic phase it has significant impact on its hosts, which include humans and certain other mammalian species.

  3. Tungiasis - Wikipedia

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    Tungiasis is an inflammatory skin disease caused by infection with the female ectoparasitic Tunga penetrans, a flea also known as the chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, jigger, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea (and not to be confused with the chigger, a different arthropod).

  4. Flea - Wikipedia

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    Once the flea reaches adulthood, its primary goal is to find blood and then to reproduce. [15] Female fleas can lay 5000 or more eggs over their life, permitting rapid increase in numbers. [16] Generally speaking, an adult flea only lives for 2 or 3 months. Without a host to provide a blood meal, a flea's life can be as short as a few days.

  5. Chigger Bites: What They Look Like and How to Prevent and ...

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    The chigger, also known as redbugs, jiggers, and harvest mites are the parasitic larvae form of a mite in the Trombiculidae family. They are nearly invisible at around 0.15 to 0.3 millimeters and ...

  6. Jigger - Wikipedia

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    Tunga penetrans or chigoe flea, a tropical parasitic arthropod Jigger, the inner button of a double-breasted coat or jacket Jigger, an obsolete golf club that was a very low lofted iron with a shortened shaft

  7. Rescued dog found covered in fleas. Now Florida pup has new ...

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    A rescued puppy was found covered in fleas — and now, the Florida dog has an “important job” at his new home, an animal shelter said. Tanner the pup eventually will undergo training so he ...

  8. Trombiculidae - Wikipedia

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    Chiggers are often confused with jiggers – a type of flea. Several species of Trombiculidae in their larva stage bite their animal host and by embedding their mouthparts into the skin cause "intense irritation", [4] or "a wheal, usually with severe itching and dermatitis". [5] [6] [7] Humans are possible hosts.

  9. Infestation of highly destructive bugs spreading in Tri ... - AOL

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    The nonnative beetles feed on more than 300 plants, and can devastate grape crops, strip roses and other garden plants of their leaves, and damage grass at homes, parks and golf courses.

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