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Hirudin is also being developed for experimental use as a systemic anticoagulant, and may prove useful in invitro blood sampling. The Sydney suburban sprawl is resulting in houses extending into areas such as wet valleys that leeches normally prefer. It is therefore less distance for these leeches to travel in wet weather before they end up in backyards and can get a meal from domestic animals or humans living there.
Similarly the domestic animals and humans themselves unwittingly bring many leeches home with them from bush walks, holidays, and other travels. If these leeches are adult they will invariably find a suitable damp spot in the garden to lay their eggs and suddenly you have a colony of leeches in your backyard.
The most common enquiry regarding leeches concerns repellents. It is unknown whether a specific preparation is commercially available but there is a plethora of tried and tested, but unproven leech-protection ideas.
These include a lather of bath soap smeared on exposed parts and left to dry, applications of eucalyptus oil, tropical strength insect repellent, lemon juice and impenetrable barriers of socks and pantyhose. The presence of hirudin in the wound following a leech bite may cause oozing to continue for several hours. Although inconvenient, blood loss is not significant. Gut bacteria can cause wound infection. In the post-operative use of leeches this is closely monitored and dealt with by use of the appropriate antibiotic.
There may also be a delayed irritation and itching after a bite. There appears to be no support for the theory that mouthparts left behind after forced removal of the leech causes this reaction. There is no evidence to suggest that they do.
The presence of trypanosomes in the gut of jawless leeches has been noted, but jawed leeches do not appear to be hosts. Trypanosomes cause the African sleeping sickness in humans. Leeches transmit trypanosomes that infect fish, crocodiles and even platypus, but none of them are dangerous to humans. Allergy to leech bite has been reported. Medical opinion should be sought, depending on the severity of the reaction. Trypanosomes of Australian mammals: A review Craig K.
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Learn more. Skip to main content Skip to acknowledgement of country Skip to footer This photo was taken at Somersby Falls, New South Wales, where the leeches were 'searching for blood'. This one was on a leaf and I'm sure it could smell blood as he arched and was looking for a spot to attach. Introduction Leeches are annelids or segmented worms, and although closely related to the earthworms, are anatomically and behaviourally more specialised.
Identification Leeches are segmented worms in the Subclass Hirudinea that are usually ectoparasitic. Habitat Most leeches are freshwater animals, but many terrestrial and marine species occur. Distribution There are around species of leeches world wide. These are divided into two major infraclasses Euhirudinea: the 'true' leeches — marine, freshwater and terrestrial — which have suckers at both ends and lack chaetae bristles Acanthobdellida: a small northern hemisphere infraclass ectoparasitic on salmoniid fish, which lack an anterior sucker and retain chaetae.
The Euhirudinea is further divided into two orders: Rhynchobdellida: jawless marine and freshwater leeches with a protrusible proboscis and true vascular system Arynchobdellida: jawed and jawless freshwater and terrestrial leeches with a non-protrusible muscular pharynx and a haemo-coelomic system.
Feeding and diet Most leeches are sanguivorous, that is they feed as blood sucking parasites on preferred hosts. Leeches are grouped according to the different ways they feed: One group the jawed leeches or Gnatbobdellida have jaws armed with teeth with which they bite the host. The blood is prevented from clotting by production of a non-enzymatic secretion called hirudin. The land leech commonly encountered by bushwalkers is included in this group. Don't worry. Do you need leeches at any other time of the year?
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