and textures, and states of decay.
oh, and snuffy.

they’re all over my yard. they sit on the azaleas, the tomato plants, the osteospermum. they’re on the monarda. the dahlias. in the sweetspire. and they bite.

i want to kill them all.

update: randy thinks they may be chiggers, but the ohio state fact sheet indicates that chiggers – while red – don’t have wings. read the page. it’s delightfully gross.

[chiggers] pierce the skin and inject into the host a salivary secretion containing powerful, digestive enzymes that break down skin cells that are ingested (tissues become liquefied and sucked up).