What food does the leeches eat?

Abstract: living in rice fields, ditches, shallow water pollution potholes and other places, addicted to human and animal blood, very agile, can swim in waves, can also make ruler-like migration. It is active every spring, and its spawning period is from June to October. In winter, it is often dormant in the inshore wet mud, does not eat and does not move, and has strong viability.

Living in rice fields, ditches, shallow water pollution pits, etc., addicted to human and animal blood, the movement is very agile, can swim in waves, can also make ruler-like migration. It is active every spring, and its spawning period is from June to October. In winter, it is often dormant in the inshore wet mud, does not eat and does not move, and has strong viability.

What food does the leeches eat?

Leeches are omnivorous animals, taking the blood or body fluids of animals as the main way of life, often using plankton, insects and molluscs in the water as the main bait, and artificial conditions with all kinds of animal viscera, cooked egg yolk, formula feed and plant residues. Freshwater snail shellfish, mixed fish, earthworms and so on.

Most of the wild leeches suck the blood of frogs, which is their favorite food, while Japanese medical leeches, phenanthrene leeches and other leeches feed on animal blood clots, coupled with plankton culture in the base to achieve a reasonable diet for leeches.

The living habits of leeches

Desmodium is a cold-blooded annelid, which can grow and reproduce in both the south and north of China. It mainly lives in reservoirs, ditches, paddy fields and lakes in fresh water, especially in ponds rich in organic matter or unpolluted rivers.

The suitable temperature for the growth of leeches is 10-40 ℃. When the temperature is lower than 3 ℃, it goes into dormant hibernation in the soil, and the sting activity is higher than 8 ℃ from March to April of the following year.

What if I get bitten by a leeches?

If you are bitten by a leeches, you can gently pat the top of the bitten area, or smear it with vinegar, wine, salt water, tobacco water, cool oil, etc. The leeches release naturally, then squeeze out the dirty blood from the bitten area, and then apply iodine to the wound.

If the leeches get into the nasal cavity, anus, vagina and urethra, they can be smeared with sesame oil or honey at the invaded place, and then removed by themselves. They can also go to the hospital to ask a doctor to remove them. Those with serious wound contamination should be injected with tetanus antivenom.