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Many leeches have a proboscis used for swallowing the prey or for sucking its fluids; others have jaws for biting. Many parasitic leeches are able to parasitize a wide variety of hosts. Most of the marine and some of the freshwater leeches are fish parasites. The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, is one of a group of aquatic bloodsucking leeches with jaws. Another group of jawed bloodsuckers is terrestrial; these leeches live in damp tropical vegetation and drop onto their mammalian prey. Most parasitic leeches attach to the host only while feeding; a single meal may be 5 or 10 times the weight of the leech and provide it with food for several months. The digestive tract of bloodsuckers produces an anticoagulant, hirudin, which keeps the engorged blood from clotting. A few leeches attach permanently to the host, leaving only to reproduce.
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Can chickens eat leeches?
it can eat you
Do leeches eat leeches?
Leeches are from the subclass Hirudinea and a kind of segmented worm but differ in significant ways. Leeches eat a prey on small invertebrates, and they use their interior suckers to feed on their host.
What does the leech eat?
Leeches eat blood.
Do seagulls eat leeches?
No they do not.
Do pike eat leeches?
yes
What type of food does a horse leeches eat?
Horse Leeches eat snails, Lavae, worms and small insects :) as far as I know.
Do moles eat leeches?
No they dont because they just dont eat thembut leeches live on the moles hair if you dont clean them!!
What will happen if you eat a dozen of leeches?
The stomach acid will kill the leeches if chewing them doesn't kill them off.
Can you die if you eat leeches?
No, unless they carry a disease. Leeches just suck your blood it it reaches your skin.
What animals eat crayfish snails leeches and clams?
You
What kind of fishes eat leeches?
Hungry fish.
How does leech eat?
Leeches drink the host's blood.
