Lice

'Dance Hall at Louse Point' by PJ Harvey is my current favourite CD. The title track, an instrumental, could be Capt. Beefheart track. Ugly at first listening, before an internal rhythm and eloquence makes itself known. Louse Point is a beach on Long Island, NY, I gather. Maybe they have lots of sea-lice or sand-hoppers there to explain the name, or maybe a guy called Louse once owned it. It faithfully covers Lieber and Stoller's "Is That All there Is", a hit for Peggy Lee in the tradition of Weill, Brel etc.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lady/snapshots/peggy-lee.html

By coincidence, one of Bogol's conversation starters on decapods of the biological kind sparked another louse tangent. Lice are wonderful parasitic creatures, evidence of the cleverness and adaptability, co-evolution of the web of organisms.

http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/lice.html
http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~vsmith/index_ll.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/l1/louse.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3715132.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s937424.htm

They're old enough that they've evolved not to kill us, except when hijacked by other micro-organisms seeking a vector.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10589908&dopt=Citation
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/human_lice.htm