Hirudinea, Freshwater Leech

Many Freshwater Leeches eat whole invertebrates, but most suck blood from frogs, turtles, water birds and other aquatic animals. While each species has a preferred host, most will also feed on others. Some will attach to, and feed on, humans. They are all hermaphrodites and produce cocoons from which the young emerge. The suckers at either end of the leech are used for locomotion; the leech

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