Showing posts with label Terrestrial Leech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrestrial Leech. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Blood siphoning worm, the Leech!



Some years back we went on a trekking through the coffee plantations in Western Ghats (Lower Palani Hills range). After returning back to our residence, we noticed that each one of us having a black sac-like thing on our legs! Blood was oozing out from that spot. We had been bitten by Leeches (Haemadipsa sylvestris, Indian Leech, Terrestrial Leech, 'Attai' in Tamil).
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