Ticks are not chiggers.
Ticks and chiggers are easily confused. Both bite humans and leave itchy marks behind, but chiggers are the larvae of harvest mites and unrelated to ticks. The two types of arthropod differ in other ways, such as feeding habits and the diseases ticks carry.
Classification
Chiggers are insects, but ticks are arachnids, the same class as spiders and scorpions. Like other arachnids, adult ticks have eight legs, not six.
Size
Ticks are small, but they're visible to the naked eye. Chiggers are usually too small to be seen.
Diet
Ticks bite humans and other animals and drink their blood. Chiggers bite, then their saliva liquefies animal skin cells, which they drink up for food.
Effects
Chigger bites become annoying and itchy after a few hours, but nothing more. Ticks spread diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.
Removal
Ticks bite deep for their size, and usually have to be pulled off with tweezers. Chigger bites are much less forceful and they can simply be brushed off our skin.
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