I went out to get the mail. In the two minutes that I spent outside in my flip-flops, I received 11 (feels like 1100) chigger bites on my ankles.

Questions:
1) What does one do to get rid of chiggers?
2) What does one do to get rid of those itchy bites? Is it a different philosophy of attack from what one does with mosquito bites?

There are a bunch of folk remedies, but what are you really supposed to do? I know what to do with leeches, but chiggers I have never figured out.

Thanks,
Lavabe