Carrying young leeches (leechlings?) on it! Didn't know leeches had parental care! Would appreciate some ID help here.
large centipede crawling along a wall after a rain storm
In a small stream leading into a quarry lake, I flipped over a rock looking for fossils and found this leech and TONS of juveniles.
A leech searching around inside a wood frog (Rana sylvatica) egg mass. I took a video for about 15 min, and didn't see the leech actually ingest any of the eggs.
Carrying young leeches (leechlings?) on it! Didn't know leeches had parental care! Would appreciate some ID help here.
Bottom of canoe as we took it out of the channel.
Brown with orange spots in a row dorsal side. Orange with brown spots underneath. At edge of pond
very tough finding ID resources for these guys, but I feel pretty good about this distinct and beautiful leech. There were many present in the pond, attracted to the vibrations by my foot in the water.