What Hair Do Head Lice Prefer. They may prefer that their host has a clean scalp so that it becomes easy for head lice to move and crawl in a clean scalp as compared to oily and greasy scalp. Head lice are tiny insects that feed on blood from the human scalp.
There are different types of lice for different types of hair on the body. That means bad news for us good news for lice. But what mattered much more was the length and thickness of the hair Rukke said.
Lice prefer long hair because its easier to access.
Hair on babies that is thin and wispy. No studies have shown that lice prefer clean hair to dirty hair. Diana - The NHS claims that actually yeah head lice do prefer clean hair but we were talking about it earlier and from an evolutionary perspective it seems to make much more sense that lice might have developed and evolved with humans before theyd invented shampoo. Head lice called pediculus capitis by scientists are small parasitic insects.
