body louse

Actually they are a form of body lice and easy to cure.

Then the body lice have to work their way back up to get to you."

Its cousin, the body louse, lives not on the skin but in clothes.

"So do body lice, but I wouldn't want to share my office with them."

Mel's case of body lice is a cause for ridicule and fear from the others.

Body lice and their eggs may be seen in the seams of clothing.

"It has little flowers that look like the claws of body lice.

Body lice cause very bad itching, especially at night.

Even black widows, body lice, and hyenas have to make a living although I could never see why.

Body lice can be seen in substandard living conditions.

Three times he brought home the body lice.

Note that head lice and Body lice are different species.

"Only if you're into poverty, bad food, and body lice," said Suzie.

The body louse lives in clothing, and diverged from head lice about 107,000 years ago.

Laundering clothes using high heat can eliminate body lice.

Perhaps the body lice don't show that, he suggested, because early clothes were too loose fitting or made of the wrong material.

The term comes from the shape of the tiny parasites, which look very different from head or body lice.

So body lice were probably not in existence when humans and Neanderthals diverged some 250,000 or more years ago.

The body louse is somewhat larger but otherwise very like the head louse.

The vector for B. quintana is the human body louse.

The body louse is adapted to live in clothing, since the human body lacks proper hair.

The head louse developed an adaptation, the body louse, which lives in clothing.

Body lice can also spread blood infections.

Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions.

Unlike body lice, head lice never carry or spread diseases.