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A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.

Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM, colour- blue

Ox louse clinging to a hair - coloured SEM

Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM.

Public louse, 1st claw of 2nd leg, SEM.

Head louse clinging to strand of human hair, SEM

Scenes from the life of Moses before the Exodus. Etching, 1799.

After the defeat of the White Army, a new white peril threatens Russia in the form of the typhus louse, against which the Red soldiers fight by washing themselves and their clothes vigorously. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.

Thirteen types of crab and two other marine crustaceans. Engraving by I. Taylor.

Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)

Pubic louse, suckers on tail piece, SEM.

Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

What should you know about head lice? : there's a simple answer with Full Marks lotion / Consumer Products Division, Napp Laboratories Ltd.

M0011709: Woman picking lice or fleas out of a man's hair

A poetical epistle from a louse to Peter Pindar, Esq; or, the louse banished from court

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Phthiraptera

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Images featuring Phthiraptera

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A poetical epistle from a louse to Peter Pindar, Esq; or, the louse banished from court

Phthiraptera

Images from the collections

Images featuring Phthiraptera

Works from the collections

A poetical epistle from a louse to Peter Pindar, Esq; or, the louse banished from court

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