An amateur biologist invites them to gather creepy-crawlies from a nearby pond.

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Most likely, mistletoe is enhancing the food supply of other birds by increasing the number of creepy crawlies available for them to eat.

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Few creepy-crawlies are more likely to clear a room than scorpions.

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Ms Dean and Dr Siva-Jothy were testing the idea that fine body hairs (known, technically, as vellus and terminal hairs) are there to alert their owner to creepy crawlies such as bed bugs, which might be intent on biting them, and that the hair may also get in the way of such arthropods' activities, giving the owner more time to react before he is bitten.

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