Sucking lice are a type of "lice" (or more correctly, louse).
They are different from some other types in that they attach and
suck blood from a single site whereas biting lice bite and get a
blood meal quickly and then move on to bite at another spot.
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Sucking insects are those insects who suck flowers and chewing
iscts are those who just chew them
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Lice (singular, louse) belong to a large order of parasitic
wingless insects; order Phthiraptera. The headlouse - one of about
3,000 species of lice described so far - goes by the scientific
name Pediculus humanus capitis.