As we move from fall into early winter, producers should begin monitoring their cattle for signs of cattle lice. Cattle ...

Despite cattle being treated for lice at housing, a secondary outbreak of lice can sometimes occur and should be swiftly ...

‘Lice are like living fossils we carry around on our own heads.’ By Laura Baisas Published Nov 8, 2023 2:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Clipping cattle along the back and around the tail head reduces sweating, helps animals stay cleaner, and makes it more difficult for lice to move and multiply ...

The globally important human diseases of trench fever, epidemic typhus, and relapsing fever are vectored by the human louse Pediculus humanus humanus. Although these conditions are epidemically ...

Krystal Ketchem, owner of Lice Perspectives in Valparaiso, with a plush louse, says itching is involved in only half of the lice cases she treats. Rash at the nape of the neck, swollen glands, a ...

Figure 1. Fossilized nits of chewing lice, tightly affixed to feathers of an enantiornithine bird, entombed in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) Isolated barbs and regularly arranged ...