Chicken lice
Channel: fromjesse
Date: 2012-05-03

So this chicken got old and died. What nobody knew is that it was host to many thousands of lice. Maybe that's why it died. What a lousy way to go. (haha.) 

Anyway, whenever a warmblooded host dies the lice and fleas know right away that their food source is gone and go into a bad scramble of a panic to flee (haha) the dead host and look for food. ("Abandon ship! Abandon ship!" You can't suck blood from a corps!)
 
So this chicken was in a plastic nest box with straw and the whole surface and especially the rim of the plastic tub was covered with lice - they had picked a place that was likely to be brushed against by another host. So I came along with some clear 2 inch wide tape and stuck it to a bunch of them, and then put another piece of tape over them, making a sealed slide of still-living lice who couldn't walk anyplace because they were stuck gently on their topside and underside to tape.

After 12 - no actually 14 or 15 hours - many were still clawing away at the tape.

PS: See if you don't start itching all over after watching this a few times.. Sorry!