who I am? in which type of nutrition you will add me? I live in the hair on head and get food by absorbing blood
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live in the hair on head and get food by absorbing blood
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The animal or organism described here is lice. It has a parasitic type of nutrition.
- Lice are small insects that belong to the class Insecta of the phylum Arthropoda.
- It shows a parasitic type of nutrition and feeds by sucking.
- It derives nutrition from human blood and depends on it for its growth.
- It lives in the hairs of human beings and feeds on blood by sucking from the scalp.
- Generally called Louse, Lice are wingless insects that belong to order Phthiraptera.
- Their retractable mouth parts i.e. they can move back into their head are specialised for piercing and sucking.
- Head lice do not carry bacterial or viral infectious diseases but body lice can spread certain infectious diseases like Typhus.
- Symptoms of head lice includes itching, sores on scalp, neck and shoulders. Lice and their eggs are visible in the hair shafts.
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