How does your parasite attach to a human?

Draw how your parasite attaches to a human body?

Hint:

Do you have suckers or clamps or hooks?

A louse fly clinging onto a swift (photo: Ilka Kureck) and the claw that it uses for attachment (photo: Sebastian Büsse). Petersen, D. S., et al., (2018). Holding tight to feathers – structural specializations and attachment properties of the avian ectoparasite Crataerina pallida (Diptera, Hippoboscidae). J. Exp. Biol. 221, 10.1242/jeb.179242

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