What is lice? Detailed answer

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What is lice?

There are over a thousand different insects that are called lice, but when people talk about lice, they usually mean one specific species that harms a person. Lice are blood-sucking creatures. They are true parasites, they feed on human blood. Lice more than other living beings are associated with man. The reason is that they live on the human body at all stages of their development.

Head or body lice are typical representatives of these insects. They develop from eggs attached to hair or clothing. In the hair, lice eggs, or nits, are clearly visible. These lice can easily be passed from person to person by wearing the clothes of an infested person or by being in the same bed with them.

Lice are carriers of typhus. The head louse, which also harms humans, lives in the hair on all parts of the body, including the eyebrows. It is destroyed by dust or other drugs applied to hair or clothing. Interestingly, certain types of lice can live in birds and mammals, and there are even lice that live in honey bees. There are lice that suck plant sap.

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