It is very possible, I am told, to get bitten 30-50 times after a period working outside. He was 86 years old. He was a grand old man, full of warmth and great humor. He was survived by his wife, Mary Ruth Chance Strandtmann and two sons, Lamar and Sturgeon. He was at the last IX Acarology Congress in Columbus, Ohio, July 1994.
People think of the planet Earth as almost indestructible, and it is.
But when you consider that life forms such a thin film on this crust of this big bowling ball, then you understand the fragility of life and the organic environment. We must have birth control among humans, and we have to control plants and insects biologically, like nature does, no chemically. Please see the following for details. I have put a list of 3800 acari genera on the web. The data file was not available.