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Sheep Biting Lice

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• Bovicola ovis is the biting or chewing lice of sheep.
• Lice are usually host specific, but they may spread between sheep and goats.
• The highest occurrence of biting lice is seen in sheep in poor body condition and in unhygienic situations.
• Lice numbers drop with higher environmental temperatures