Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun redbug

1 sense of redbug

Sense 1
harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug -- (larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation)
       => trombiculid -- (mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates)