Lice form an insect order Anoplura, or sucking lice, that do not have close relations to other insects. Lice are bloodsuckers. They live in the fur of mammals but not all kinds of mammals. They only live on one family of predators, namely the Canidae. Pediculus humanus is a species of louse that infects humans. […]
Sucking lice
( Latin: Anoplura ) The members of this small insect group show many adaptations for their specialised parasitic life. They are wingless, have much reduced eyes and their mouth parts are made for biting and sucking. The skin of a louse is leathery and greyish, and the abdomen becomes much distended when full of blood. Each […]