1 San Francisco Vegetarian Society (SFVS) - in the Bay Area for over 30 years (San Francisco)  Vegetarian and Vegan Guide to Santa Barbara - Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurant, Grocery and Resource Guide to Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara)
The body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus, sometimes called Pediculus humanus corporis) is a louse that infests humans. The condition of being infested with head lice, body lice, or pubic lice is known as pediculosis. Nits are louse eggs. 2  They are generally easy to see in the seams of an infested person's clothing, particularly around the waistline, under armpits or even in body hair. 3  They are oval and usually yellow to white in color.
For the disease known as head lice, see Head lice infestation. The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) is an obligate ectoparasite of humans that causes head lice infestation (pediculosis capitis). Head lice are wingless insects spending their entire life on the human scalp and feeding exclusively on human blood.