Lice

Pest Description

• Yellow to rusty brown
• 1 to 6 mm long
• Wingless
• Flat bodied
• Sucking lice: pointed, narrow heads
• Biting lice: heads larger than the thorax

Life Cycle

• Complete life cycle takes 2 to 3 weeks
• Live in colonies, moving from host to host through contact, walls, bedding, etc.
• Females generally lay about one egg per day
• Eggs are glued to hairs on host animal and hatch in about two weeks

Food Source

• Sucking lice feed on blood of the host animal; biting lice feed on dead skin and dried blood on the host

Threat

• Irritation can result in weight loss, weakness and resulting susceptibility to other disease threats; damage to facilities

Control Method

• CyLence^® Pour-On Insecticide
• Co-Ral^® Fly and Tick Spray
• Co-Ral^® Emulsifiable Livestock Insecticide

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