INSECTS vs LOUSE: NOUN
- Small air-breathing arthropod
- Plural form of insect.
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- Wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
- Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
- Any of numerous small, flat-bodied, wingless biting or sucking insects of the order Phthiraptera, which live as external parasites on birds and mammals, including humans. The lice are sometimes classified together with the psocids in the order Psocodea.
- A mean or despicable person.
- An insect or other small arthropod (as a crustacean) that infests other animals or plants, or an animal resembling such parasites: a name for a great variety of small creatures.
- Bird-lice are parasitic insects, of several hundred species, various genera, and several families, which some authors range with the foregoing in the order Hemiptera, but most place in the Pseudoneuroptera. They are known as the order or superfamily Mallophaga. They have mandibulate or biting mouth-parts, are wingless, and of very variable forms. They are by no means confined to birds, but infest mammals as well; almost every kind of bird and beast is infested by these creatures, sometimes several species to one host, and in such multitudes as to canse disease and death. Of these, such as infest domestic quadrupeds and birds belong to the genera Trichodectes, Docophorus, Nirmus, Goniocotes, Goniodes, Lipeurus, Trinotum, Colpopocephalum, Menopon, and Gyropus.
- The beaver harbors a remarkable louse, Platypsyllus castoris, a degraded clavicorn beetle, so peculiar as to have been made type of an order, Achreioptera.
- Insects have their own lice. Such are the bee-lice, or pupiparous dipterous insects of the family Braulidæ, order Diptera; and some of the lice of bats are similar dipterous insects, though wingless, of the family Nycteribiidæ. Bees, wasps, etc., are also infested by certain small parasitic heteromerous beetles in the form of lice, such as the wingless larvæ of Meloidæ, a species of which has been named Pediculus melittæ, and the whole family Stylopidæ. Insects affected by the latter are said to be stylopized. None of the foregoing lice are aquatic.
- Fishes, marine mammals. crustaceans, etc., are infested by a great variety of small degraded crustaceans, collectively known as fish-lice or Ichthyophthira. Most of these belong to a class or order Epizoa or Siphonostoma, or Lernæoidea; a few are cirripeds, as Rhizocephala. Whale-lice are Cyamidæ. Carpice are Argulidæ.
- Wood-lice are the terrestrial isopods of the family Oniscidæ, also called slaters, sow-bugs, etc. These are not parasites, but some of the aquatic isopods are fish-lice, as Cymothoidæ.
- Plants are infested by multitudes of small plant-sucking hemipters, known as plant-lice, and formerly collectively termed Phytophthiria: as the aphids, Aphididæ, some of which are also called gall-lice; the psyllids, Psyllidæ, called flea-lice and jumping plant-lice; and the scale-insects or Coccidæ, some of which are also known as bark-lice.
- Book-lice are pseudoneuropterous insects of the family Psocidæ, various species of which, as those of the genera Atropos and Clothilla, injure books.
- Certain mites or acarids are sometimes called lice, as the harvest-ticks, known as red-lice, the itch-mite or itch-louse, etc. For further information, see the compounded words, and also the technical names.
- Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under crab, dog, etc.
- Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
- Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
- Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.
- A parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse.
- Any one of numerous species of mites which infest mammals and birds, clinging to the hair and feathers like lice. They belong to Myobia, Dermaleichus, Mycoptes, and several other genera.
- A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera.
- A contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful.
INSECTS vs LOUSE: VERB
- N/A
- To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.
INSECTS vs LOUSE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To bungle. Often used with up.
INSECTS vs LOUSE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- Mostly parasitic on birds
- To clean from lice.
- A Middle English variant of loose.
INSECTS vs LOUSE: RELATED WORDS
- Outbreaks, Bites, Bug, Worms, Entomology, Species, Bugs, Mosquitoes, Ants, Bees, Beetles, Pests, Dirt ball, Louse, Worm
- Vixen, Schmuck, Hussy, Scumbag, Nit, Whore, Bug, Parasite, Plant louse, Dirt ball, Biting louse, Sucking louse, Bird louse, Worm, Insect
INSECTS vs LOUSE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Whitefly, Leafhoppers, Arthropods, Rodents, Larvae, Fungi, Aphids, Caterpillars, Bug, Entomology, Species, Ants, Bees, Louse, Worm
- Borne, Creep, Jerk, Pig, Tramp, Vixen, Hussy, Scumbag, Whore, Bug, Parasite, Plant louse, Bird louse, Worm, Insect
INSECTS vs LOUSE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- INSECTS AND HUMAN DECOMPOSITION Apart from the bacteria and fungi, insects are the most important processors of dead animal remains.
- However, evaluating the effect of several insects on fruit and seed production is difficult in plants visited by a variety of insects.
- Birds that eat forbidden items like insects are only permitted if insects are not a major part of their diet.
- Although we think of some insects as pests, all kinds of insects have an important role in our ecosystem.
- Although a common staghorn fern rarely attracts insects, occasionally it may suffer from an infestation by mealy bugs or scale insects.
- Common characteristics of insects and if insects help or harm US explains that living organisms Change slowly over.
- KIMMINS: So, when you say insects, the first thing I want to know is what kind of insects?
- Insects Beneficial insects are a natural way to fight insect pests and protect our environment.
- Many types of stinging insects, such as yellow jackets, are social insects.
- Another feature that identifies many insects is that adult insects have wings, though not all winged insects fly.
- All these fleas and the louse can carry plague.
- Staining method for removing louse nits from hair.
- Singular: man, woman, tooth, goose, mouse, louse, foot.
- Ilot lmocre tiaii six nods froiii tile louse.
- How long do louse eggs take to hatch?
- And boy can lice louse up your day.
- In fact, you may never see a louse.
- The human body louse and human head louse are different subspecies of the same species.
- The ___________ louse is the most common louse species found on humans.
- The most common in the US being: head louse, body louse, shaft louse and wing louse.
INSECTS vs LOUSE: QUESTIONS
- What makes mosquitoes different from other insects?
- How effective are synthetic insecticides against insects?
- How do stick insects reproduce without fertilization?
- Do insects exhibit positive or negative phototaxis?
- Are scale insects vulnerable to contact insecticides?
- Do insects on hummingbird feeders harm hummingbirds?
- Can lemongrass regulate neuroreceptor activity in insects?
- What determines herbivore fecundity in herbivorous insects?
- Who are the 5 harmful insects and 5 Useful insects?
- How are water stick insects and walking stick insects related?
- Where would you not have been surprised to find the louse?