Sentence examples for lice can from inspiring English sources

Head lice can be a nuisance but they have not been shown to spread disease.

Nor do they fly about flashing brilliantly coloured wings in the sunshine...The collectors of fleas and lice can be counted on the fingers of one hand!" Yet she loved them.

Tests have also shown that wing lice can cling to the flies much better than their body lice counterparts.

That may not be true, but some lice can latch on to flies to ride from one species of bird to another, a new study shows.

It's still not clear which compounds the lice can taste and smell, but since there are so few, those receptors may be good targets for new pesticides or repellents.

In a new study, researchers claim that parasitic lice can tell us much about the course of bird and mammal evolution, including whether the ancestors of these animals made it through a mass extinction that wiped out most of the dinosaurs.

A louse can live no longer than 36 hours without a host.

However, in the succeeding pre-ad I and -II and adult stages the salmon louse can move unrestricted on the host surface resulting in increased virulence [ 7].

The body louse can transmit the following life-threatening forms of bacteria to humans: Rickettsia prowazekii, which causes epidemic typhus; Bartonella quintana, which causes trench fever; and Borrelia recurrentis, which causes louse-borne relapsing fever (2 ).

The arrangements, trnR– nad4L and trnG– nad3, in the pubic louse can be inferred to be ancestral to sucking lice (suborder Anoplura, which includes the three human lice) because these arrangements are also present in the screamer louse, Bothriometopus macrocnemis (suborder Ischnocera, sister to the Anoplura + Rhyncopthirina) (Cameron et al. 2007) (fig. 6).

Live lice, which can be tan or grayish white, move quickly and can be hard to capture or even see.