The life cycle of chiggers is divided into five main stages: egg, prelarva, larva, nymph, and adult. The females lay eggs in a sheltered area. The eggs hatch into the prelarva, which is inactive and does not feed. The larva is the parasitic stage that feeds on humans and animals.

Where do chiggers lay their eggs?

Harvest mite females lay their eggs in moist leaf litter, damp soil, and weedy patches. They especially like moist rotting logs and areas with berry briars. The females can lay between 3-8 eggs in a clutch per day, and their round moist eggs are buried close to the ground on wet leaf blades or leaf litter.

Do chiggers lay eggs inside you?

Many believe the chiggers lay eggs inside you, but that also is not true. Instead, they inject a chemical into your skin that actually dissolves a small area of skin cells. They create a tube out of some of the dissolved skin, and they use that tube as a straw to suck up more of the dissolving skin.