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Cattle Louse
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Cattle Louse
Syracuse, Hamilton County, Kansas, USA
March 29, 2016
Collected feeding on dead skin on the rump of a yearling heifer. id based on bug guide pictures
Contributed by I Fox on 30 March, 2016 - 10:41am

Just found out that this is t
Just found out that this is the Cattle Biting Louse (Bovicola bovis).
… I Fox, 7 March, 2017 - 9:00pm

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