- A
bird louse is any
chewing louse (small,
biting insects) of
order Phthiraptera which parasitizes warm-blooded animals,
especially birds.
Bird lice may...
-
phylogenetic research.
Lice are
obligate parasites,
living externally on warm-blooded
hosts which include every species of
bird and mammal,
except for...
-
paraphyletic section of
lice,
known as
chewing lice,
biting lice, or
bird lice,
containing more than 3000 species.
These lice are
external parasites that...
- species,
Pediculus schaeffi.
Other species of
lice infest most
orders of
mammals and all
orders of
birds.
Lice differ from
other hematophagic ectoparasites...
- of a
bird,
require maintenance.
Apart from
physical wear and tear,
feathers face the
onslaught of fungi,
ectoparasitic feather mites and
bird lice. The...
-
genus Haemoproteus have been
recovered from four of the five species.
Bird lice of the
ischnoceran genus Pectinopygus and
amblyceran genus Colpocephalum...
-
preen in
birds,
followed by
readdition of
preening ability was
shown to
result in
changes in body size in
lice. Once the
ability of the
birds to preen...
-
streamers also have
larger white tail spots, and
since feather-eating
bird lice prefer white feathers,
large white tail
spots without parasite damage...
- (previously unrecorded)
species of bats,
birds, and
mallophaga (
bird lice)". In 1940, a
genus of
bird lice, Meinertzhageniella, was
named after him by...
- humans. It is one of
three lice which infest humans, the
other two
being the head louse, and the crab
louse or
pubic louse. Body
lice may lay eggs on the host...
