Word: nymphal
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...wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants taped into sock tops, many people actually do it, though the fashion statement is irredeemably tacky. The meticulous daily body inspection that is the most effective preventive is now a normal routine, like flossing teeth. What you are looking for is the nymphal stage of an arachnid (not an insect) that is louse-size only as an adult and that as a nymph has been compared to a dark freckle. Where you are looking is behind the knees, in pubic and scalp hair, under watchbands, in armpits. Yes, you need a partner...
When they first come out of the ground, they are still wearing their golden- brown nymphal skins, which they shed. After crawling out of that wingless skin, which splits neatly down the back, the handsome adults sit quietly and visibly on tree trunks tentatively trying their new wings. Then they set out for a few weeks of courtship and mating. During those weeks the males sing, the paired couple reproduce and then they...
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