The colour of adult lice is white, dark grey or brown. Female adult lice are longer than male adult lice. The size of the adult lice is similar to the size of a sesame seed. Each night ...

This was made possible as the skin cells from the scalp were enclosed in the cement produced by female lice to attach eggs, called nits, to the hair. The details of the study were published in the ...

they might have served a function in the female task of weaving. But viewing the combs at 10 times normal size revealed their true purpose: Many still bore traces of the lice and nits they had ext ...