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is an entomologist, a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and of the Linnean Society of London. He is the past president of the British Entomological and Natural History Society and co-author of 鈥楾he Little Book of Nits.鈥�

is Research Leader at the Natural History Museum, London coordinating the Museum's digital science programmes. His taxonomic specialisation is on parasitic lice and he works on the Museum's 80-thousand louse specimens聽collection, to understand the coevolution of these parasites on their bird and mammal hosts

Joanna founded the charity , which launched national Bug Busting Days. These promote community-wide, co-ordinated wet combing to detect head lice, a strategy warmly welcomed by Health and Education.听

Bug Buster Help Line: 01908 561928.

David Reed is the and聽Associate Director of Research & Collections at the .

He is best known for research that explores human evolution through the lens of our species鈥� longtime traveling companion, the lowly louse.

His work focuses on host/parasite co-evolution. Lately, he has been driven by questions relating to the extent with which we can infer host evolutionary history simply by studying their host-specific parasites.听

Anne Hardy is Honorary Professor of The History of Public Health at the .听

Her interests lie chiefly in the history of infectious disease, both social and scientific, and she has also taught and written on medical history since 1800.

In his day job, Doug is a but he is also a great raconteur and kindly agreed to read Robert Burns 鈥淭o a Louse鈥� for us.