Exploding Ants by Joanne Settel

Author:Joanne Settel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

This fat American dog tick has just filled itself with blood.

ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY

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A human scalp provides an ideal home and food source for a bloodsucking head louse. The tiny louse uses six clawed legs to permanently attach itself to the hair of its human host. Here it stays, while sucking up blood from the scalp every few hours. Safe within a forest of hair, the head louse grows, mates, and lays eggs. An adult female makes as many as three hundred eggs during her one-month life span. Using special cement-making glands, she glues these eggs to hairs. The eggs mature and hatch in about five days. The newly hatched young settle down on the scalp and suck up their first meal.

Although a hungry louse has plenty of food, it must cling tightly to its host. If it gets knocked off and loses its blood supply, the louse will die within two days. Humans who are infested usually carry around ten to twenty lice. While ordinary washing won’t dislodge the little invaders, they can be removed by using special insect-killing shampoos or creams.

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