What are the natural enemies of leeches? How to prevent its bite?

Grasshoppers, also known as leeches, are blood-sucking animals that are easily encountered in wet, warm routes. Unlike other animals, leeches will attack and attach themselves to people, and you will feel no pain when bitten. What are the natural enemies of grasshoppers? How to prevent it from biting?

What are the natural enemies of grasshoppers?

1. Ants

Ants appear because of the introduction of bait smell, or brought into the soil. Ants mainly harm spawning species leeches and cocoons.

2. Rats

Rats are the main natural enemies of leeches, often swallowing leeches in large quantities, especially when leeches are active on the shore, because they lose their defense ability and are swallowed by rats.

3. Snakes and water centipedes

Snakes and water centipedes can sometimes swallow leeches.

How to prevent being bitten by leeches?

Wild survival, exploration needs to prevent grasshoppers, grasshoppers are also called leeches, there are many grasshoppers in the jungle, although this animal does not infect diseases and does not immediately kill people, but it sucks more blood, makes people's physical strength weak, and bites often bleed more than once, easy to infect. There are many kinds of leeches, such as dry leeches growing in damp and depressed forest grassland, water leeches growing in swamps and ponds, and parasitic leeches growing in mountain streams and springs (larvae are white and difficult to find with naked eyes). The leech has a large blood-sucking capacity and can absorb blood equivalent to 2 to 10 times its weight. At the same time, due to leech saliva anesthesia and anticoagulant effect, in its blood, people often feel no, when its full food away, the wound is still bleeding, often causing infection, inflammation and ulceration.

When walking in tropical jungle, wear trousers and put socks on the outside of trousers to prevent leeches from attaching to human body. Always check for leeches climbing onto your feet as you move. Such as in the upper coated with some soap, mosquito oil, can prevent leeches climb. The effective time of coating once is about 4~8 hours. In addition, leeches and snakes on the smell of raw garlic also dare not * close, garlic juice smeared in shoes and socks and trouser legs, but also can play the effect of repelling leeches.

Camping places should be chosen in relatively dry, grassless places, not in the lake, river or stream camping.

Rest often check whether there are grasshopper bites, such as grasshopper should be removed in time.

When passing through rivers and gullies with grasshoppers, you should tighten your trouser legs and check whether grasshoppers are attached after landing.

Drink boiled water as much as possible, do not drink water with parasitic grasshoppers. Small young grasshoppers are not easy to find, drink into the respiratory tract, esophagus, urethra and other places parasitic.

When these vampires sting you, don't pull them off with your hands. It's stupid. Because leeches have two suckers, chances are you'll backfire and make them suck tighter. At the same time, pulling it hard will cause its mouthparts to break under the skin, causing infection.

There are many ways to get leeches off. You can tap the arm, thigh or other bitten area. This vibration will cause leeches to shed.

A common method is to coat leeches with concentrated brine. In addition, you can also apply soapy water, tobacco oil, wine, vinegar and so on to leeches. Soon, leeches will fall to the ground.