Admittedly, I’ve seen the classic movie “The African Queen” one too many times. When temperatures in northern Maine rise beyond my comfort zone and bring the humidity along for the ride, the image of ...

A common worry among visitors to lakes, ponds and rivers emerges every summer - are there leeches lurking below the surface? In 2024, radio station Kiss 91.5 FM posted an article on its website ...

Langstone, Hampshire: The pond is almost devoid of life, apart from several of these greenish-grey segmented worms burrowed into the silt at the bottom My wildlife pond has been leaking and, after ...

A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington. A team led by a researcher at the Smithsonian’s ...

I reassured him he wasn’t going to get nasty blood-sucking creatures attached to him every time he did pond work. There is only one species of leech in this part of the world that can do that, the ...