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  2. Haematopinus suis - Wikipedia

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    Female H. suis lay 3–6 eggs per day following a blood meal and mating, eventually laying about 90 eggs. The amber eggs are deposited on the lower half of the swine's side, or the neck, shoulders, flanks, or on the back of the ears. Lice eggs are commonly referred to as "nits". [Note 1] These nits have small holes for gas exchange, called ...

  3. Louse - Wikipedia

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    A louse's egg is commonly called a nit. Many lice attach their eggs to their hosts' hair with specialized saliva; the saliva/hair bond is very difficult to sever without specialized products. Lice inhabiting birds, however, may simply leave their eggs in parts of the body inaccessible to preening, such as the interior of feather shafts.

  4. Body louse - Wikipedia

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    The life cycle of the body louse consists of three stages: egg, nymph, and adult. Eggs (also called nits, see head louse nits) are attached to the clothes or hairs by the female louse, using a secretion of the accessory glands that holds the egg in place until it hatches, while the nits (empty egg shells) may remain for months on the clothing ...

  5. 11 common bug bites — and photos to help you identify them

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    In addition to the lice and their bites, you might notice lice eggs called nits, Kassouf says. Nits are tiny, hard and white, and they stick to the hair follicle.

  6. Head louse - Wikipedia

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    Head louse egg (nit) attached to hair shaft of host. Like most insects, head lice are oviparous. Females lay about three or four eggs per day. Louse eggs (also known as nits), are attached near the base of a host hair shaft. [11] [12] Eggs are usually laid on the base of the hair, 3–5 mm off the scalp surface.

  7. Eggs are getting scarcer and pricier ahead of the holidays ...

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    In California, white cage-free eggs were selling for about $5.26 a dozen last week — up nearly 90% from $2.81 during the same time in 2023, according to the USDA.

  8. Egg inflation is back again, prices up 8.2% month over month

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    The USDA reported that US egg production dropped 4% year over year, totaling 9.19 billion in October 2024. The bird flu caused the loss of 2.8 million egg-laying birds in Utah, Washington, and ...

  9. Sucking louse - Wikipedia

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    At least three species or subspecies of Anoplura are parasites of humans; the human condition of being infested with sucking lice is called pediculosis. Pediculus humanus is divided into two subspecies, Pediculus humanus humanus , or the human body louse , sometimes nicknamed "the seam squirrel" for its habit of laying of eggs in the seams of ...