Crab
lice
- The
French used to call crab lice 'papillons d'amour',
which means 'butterflies of love'.
- Lice
have been found on 4000-year-old mummies.
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Lice
feed on human blood. There are three types: head lice (see
page xx), which are common in children; clothing
lice – sometimes called body lice – which are
common in vagrants, live in clothing and only visit the skin
to feed; and crab or pubic lice.
How crab lice are caught
Lice cannot jump, hop, fly or swim. Crab lice probably cannot
be caught from lavatory seats or even from bedclothes,
but this is not 100% certain. They probably cannot survive
for more than 24 hours away from a person. They are transmitted
by close body contact, during which they are able to transfer
their grip from one person’s hair to that of the
other before letting go entirely from the first person.
Sexual contact is their ideal situation.
Where crab lice live
Crab lice cannot live in hair that is too dense, so they
will not colonize the hair of the scalp (except at the
hairline). However, they will live happily on armpit hair,
eyebrows, eyelashes, chest hair and upper thigh hair as
well as pubic hair.
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