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How does a leech eat?
A leech eats blood and it sucks it through your skin. They do eat other invertebrates.
What type of worm is a bootlace worm?
It's a kind of leech.{A worm that sucks your your blood}
How does a leech benefit from feeding on a mammal?
it sucks it blood and it pretty much takes its life
Do leeches have unique mating behaviors?
yes,while mating the male leech sucks the females blood.
What happens when a tic bites you?
It sucks your blood
What is a leeche?
A leech is an annelid or segmented worm related to earthworms. Most are aquatic although there are land leeches in the tropics. Some leeches are blood sucking parasites but others are predators.
What is the difference between a slug and a leech?
A slug is a mollusk, it lives on land and eats plants. A leech is an annelid (segmented worm) lives in fresh or salt water depending on the type and sucks blood.
What happens when a leech bites you and how should you treat the bite?
When a leech bites you, it attaches to your skin and feeds on your blood. To treat the bite, you should gently remove the leech, clean the area with soap and water, and apply an antiseptic to prevent infection.
Is a leech an omnivore carnivore or herbivore?
Technically speaking leeches are actually parasites becaus they drink other animal's blood
How long can a leech live after filling themselves with blood?
How long can a leech live after filling themselves with blood?
When a leech is sucking your blood what is the parasite and what is the host?
The leech is the parasite and whomever blood it's sucking is the Host.
Can leeches help in curing AIDS..i mean if they can suck bad blood then can they be used to suck the infected blood of a person who has HIV or AIDS?
Aids/ HIV is actually caused by a retrovirus. These retroviruses are viruses that uses reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that is used when RNA transcribes into DNA. And then translation of the DNA into RNA, producing the genetic information to produce for retroviruses. This process happens as many times when the retrovirus needs to infect the cell. If a Leech sucks on infected blood, will the leech cure AIDS? No because it wouldn't "kill" that retrovirus.
