It is a sucking insect that is parasite and feeds on the fluids of its host. Hematophageal is a parasite of domestic animals and humans and feeds on blood. Other species are plant parasites and affect a wide variety of crops.
Lice : 1 : Annual herbaceous plant, with opposite leaves and lanceolate shape, flowers with white heads and yellow center. - 2 : Anopluro insect from 2 to 3 mm. long living parasite in man and other animals.
It heats water. Workers, on the mining side, had elongated deposits, which adapted to a system for fire and heat water for bathing, after completing his task of working, and called him a louse, by the ordinary.