Sentence examples for biting louse from inspiring English sources

The biting louse Trichodectes jacobi is also known to infest polecats.

Parasites recorded on the European nightjar include a single species of biting louse found on the wings, and a feather mite that occurs only on the white wing markings.

Louse (order Phthiraptera), any of a group of small wingless parasitic insects divisible into two main groups: the Amblycera and Ischnocera, or chewing or biting lice, which are parasites of birds and mammals, and the Anoplura, or sucking lice, parasites of mammals only.

Other ectoparasites include biting lice, sucking lice and the fleas Pulex irritans and Ctenocephalides canis.

Before eradication, biting lice (Damalinia bovis) were present in 94% of the herds and 27% of the animals.

Two species of lice are endemic in Norwegian cattle, biting lice (Damalinia (Bovicola) bovis (Linnaeus 1758)) and sucking lice (Linognathus vituli (Linnaeus 1758)).

Hides from herds with mixed lice infections had the same prevalence of light flecks and spots as hides from herds with only biting lice infections.

Six herds were reinfected with just biting lice, 2 herds with just sucking lice and one herd was reinfected with both.

Both biting lice (Damalinia (Bovicola) bovis (Linnaeus 1758)) and sucking lice (Linognathus vituli (Linnaeus 1758)) caused light flecks and spots, but biting lice seemed to be the most important.

Statistical analyses showed the same result when the same analyses were performed according to the prevalence of just biting lice alone or the prevalence of all lice in animals older than 12 months.

This result corresponded with the result of Bugby & Webster (1994), who found no additive effects of mixed infections compared with only biting lice on the frequency of light flecks and spots.