redbug

Tell you one thing, though, I ain't gonna sit around and not scratch a redbug."

"Redbug, Greenbug and Yelbug, of course.

The Fordyce High School mascot and athletic emblem is uniquely the Redbug with cardinal and black serving as the school colors.

Though eschewing dates of coinage, it nicely tracks regionalisms: "chigger making substantial inroads into the South and redbug shows new strength in the Rocky Mountain states."

The football stadium was renamed Redbug Field at Paul Bear Bryant Stadium in honor of the 1931 graduate who led Fordyce to a 1930 perfect season and a state championship and went onto become the winningest college football coach at the time of his retirement.

In his lawyer's voice, without a shade of inflection, he said: "Your aunt has asked me to try and impress upon you and Jean Louise that you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you are the product of several generations' gentle breeding-" Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg.