"Galloping dandruff" - that's what WWI soldiers called head lice. If you like your facts fascinating and disgusting, enjoy blown-up photographs of microscopic monsters, and laugh at slightly gross jokes and cartoons, you'll love this book's illustrated information about the life stages, habitats, and eating habits of mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, mites, leeches, and other blood-eaters in your own backyard. Grades 4-8. Glossary. Suggested Web resources. Good Year Books. 80 pages.