Summary of all chigger collection results obtained in this study.

This table includes the collection county chiggers were collected in, the number of chiggers collected, the morphological and molecular ID of chiggers to genus, the host type the chigger was collected from, the ecoregion the chigger was collected in, and the number of individual rodents the chiggers were collected from. The morphological ID of chiggers to genus was completed using previously described identification keys and molecular ID of chiggers was completed using 18s ribosomal RNA gene primers and PCR.