Sentences with phrase «of body lice»
Most species of body lice infest only one species of bird host, whereas each wing lice species generally infests several species of bird.
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Babo Botanicals offers a range of organic body products, including shampoo and conditioner, detangler, body wash, bubble bath, lotion, soap, diaper cream, sun screen, and (the ever dreaded yet handy) lice repellent.
So if you compare the number of ectoparasites, such as body lice and fleas, they were just as common in Roman period York, for example, as it was in Viking and medieval period York in Britain.
The species living in the forests of our bodies include lice, worms, bacteria, viruses, and amoebas.
The carpet beetles and book lice do much of the clearing up, scavenging dead insects, moulds and algae, as well as polishing off food crumbs and detritus from our own bodies, including nail clippings, hair and dead skin.
Christopher Harbison and Dale Clayton, evolutionary biologists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, wondered whether another bug, the parasitic hippoboscid fly, could explain how body lice get around more.
In the presence of flies, wing lice travel between host species, whereas body lice do not, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Early humans probably shed their full body - hair suits because they were often infested with disease - carrying parasites like lice, fleas and mites, according to scientists at England's John Radcliffe Hospital and University of Reading.
To add to the overall creepiness of this, the merkin was actually worn to conceal the fact that the woman had shaved her pubic hair in order to eradicate body lice (eek!)
Dr. Seeger explains that lice are on cattle throughout the year, but populations tend to migrate to the lower parts of the body during the summer months seeking area out of the direct sunlight and heat.
DDT, a chemical pesticide synthesized by Müller in the late 1930s, was initially used against houseflies, beetles, various farm pests, and typhus - carrying lice on the bodies of World War II soldiers and civilians.
If human body lice studies are confirmed as indicating that not a single human wore clothing, not even animal skins, as recently as 169,000 years ago, then the average temperature globally must have been considerably warmer than it is now in African latitudes where most of us may have been located in those days.