These flies are ectoparasites, living on the bird rather than in it. Alan Graham, Vermont’s state entomologist, has an extensive collection of avian and other louse fly species, and he has ...

Researchers have documented the first molecular confirmation of Hippobosca longipennis, commonly known as the dog louse fly, infesting sheltered dogs in Morocco. The discovery was published in the ...

Mentions of dog pests appear in the writings of ancient Greeks and Romans such as Homer, Aristotle and Pliny the Elder, and a painting of a hyenalike animal in an ancient Egyptian tomb dated to ...

Some chewing lice have also been found hitch-hiking on louse flies, which are related to deer flies. In such cases they attach themselves to the louse flies' legs and abdomen.

Lice also lack a lot of the genes needed to break down toxins. "There's only a dozen of these genes that deal with toxins, which is half of what honeybees have and a third of what the fruit fly ...

Lice species carried aloft by flies spread to more species and tend to speciate at different times than their hosts, while ground-bound lice more closely coevolve with the birds they infect. The ...

The preserved parasites discovered in the mummified young dog's right ear and coat include the common brown tick and louse fly — tiny nuisances that may have carried diseases leading to the ...

A dog mummy has revealed the first archaeological evidence of bloodsucking parasites plaguing Fido's ancestors in Egypt during the classical era of Roman rule.