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  • noun Plural form of redbug.

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Examples

  • Chiggers, or redbugs, are nearly impossible to see, but a thorough scrub in a hot soapy shower will get rid of them.

    April False: 6 medical myths debunked 2009

  • Chiggers, or redbugs, are nearly impossible to see, but a thorough scrub in a hot soapy shower will get rid of them.

    April False: 6 medical myths debunked 2009

  • We trudged about within the old town limits and tried to picture the chief events of those years; but we could not remember what they were; so we sat down on the grassy fort, regardless of ticks and redbugs, to read up some more.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • "It's a thousand times nicer than a picnic in the summer, when you get so hot, and the mosquitoes and redbugs and spiders swarm all over you."

    The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 1897

  • I haven't tried it yet, I generally go for heavy layers of deep woods Off or something similar as I seem to be particularly loved by the redbugs, chiggers and mosquitos.

    Tiny Cat Pants Aunt B. 2010

  • I haven't tried it yet, I generally go for heavy layers of deep woods Off or something similar as I seem to be particularly loved by the redbugs, chiggers and mosquitos.

    Tiny Cat Pants Aunt B. 2010

  • ThermaCell mosquito repellents work great for what they were intended, but to combat other creepy, crawling, stinging critters like redbugs and ticks, spray the child's clothing thoroughly with insect repellent.

    unknown title 2009

  • There are few things I enjoy as much as hunting out of a treestand in the Deep South, assuming that I don’t step on a serpent, or see a serpent, or get involved with redbugs.

    The Unlikely Beanfield Rifle 2006

  • The redbugs and the June-flies are bad enough already, without orders; and people do say you are quite too free in sending such plagues upon them, for little cause, or for no cause at all. "

    The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1835

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