Leech Life                                    

food: worms, snails, insect larvae, small water creatures, tadpoles, small invertabrates

predetors: ducks, fish,and tadpoles, crayfish, other leeches, and aquatic insects

habitat: shallow water, in plants, under stones

life span :up to two years

life cycle: up to 30 days  egg, larve,and adult

Interesting facts

• To trap a leech gedt a small can and take off the lid and put in air holes  and put in raw meat when one comes in put on the lid
• The deeper in water you are the less chance of bieng attacked by a leech
• Leeches dont have gills instead they have lungsl
• Some leeches keep thier babys attached to them
• Leechs can be as long as a few inches to as long as to two feet
• Some leeches only feed once our twice a year
• There are three types of leechs: marine, freshwater, and terrestrial

• They are hermaphorodites
• Their scienetific name is Hirdo mediccinals
• Most Leechs eat small invertabrates wich they eat whole
• Their bodies have 34 segments.

Pictures

                                                               This is a Chinese Leech

                                                        This Leech was found in a bucket

                  This is a blood-sucking leech in action

           The life cycle of a leech.

We wouldn't have

able to make this page without these websites:

http://www.uaex.edu/wneal/pond_managment/pages/topics/leeches.html

http://www.pond-life.us/pond-life-leech.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech

 http://www.fishpondinfo.com/micro.htm 

http://images.google.com/imgres?

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http://www.kidfish.bc.ca/leech_cycle.htm 

 Thank You For Watching This Leech Presantation By MAW And VRS