Be warned... Chiggers (red bugs to you Southerners) live in moss, and mites actually colonize in moss.. Particularly, moss that is lying around on the ground. Chiggers like to burrow INTO your flesh so you can't scratch them out easily.

Also, mosses don't package their male gametes in pollen, as flowers do, but rely instead on swimming sperm. Textbooks state that moss sperm need to swim or splash to a female moss tuft. However, an experiment with a common moss species shows that moss sperm hitchhike on mites and tiny insects living within the moss itself. Get the picture? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Brum