You did this just to mess with my head, didn't you, Wombat?

Great. You're paying my therapy bill, ya jerk!

*desperately thinking of nice things like ponies and clean linen and warm sand and dark chocolate...*

--TwoDragons

June 14, 2007

;-)

--TwoDragons

June 14, 2007

Oh Denita, it gets worse! Had to look this up--these suckers get to be up to 18 in. long and almost 4 in. wide. Instead of biting and sucking, they grab on and insert a long probiscis into the host to suck the blood. Geez, you'd never get them off...aarrgg...

June 15, 2007

Um. What do leeches have to do with Stand By Me? I've never seen the movie ... Am I missing somethin'?

June 15, 2007

OK: An advisory. If you click the link and Google "Amazon leeches," do not, repeat DO NOT do the image search. You will discover that there IS a leech more disturbing than the giant one ... Much more. O.o

(..."Nasal leeches?" WTF...)

June 15, 2007

also:
http://zbio.net/pictures/leech_s.jpg

June 15, 2007

Noooooo!!!!! Nasal leeches!!!! Did you read about how to remove one if it gets stuck in your nose, or worse--in your throat??!!! Ahhhh!! And nematode, I've been searching for a good pic of the Amazon leech and couldn't find one--this is great.
But the grossest parisite photos are still these. I love them (from a huge distance). http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2007/02/two-mouths-to-feed.html#links

June 16, 2007

In "Stand by Me" the kids had to go wading in some swampy water and came out covered with leeches. Kind of like "African Queen".

June 17, 2007

I had to check out all those sites! DANG! I thought I'd heard about every cool parasite there was but nasal leeches are a new on to me.

I advise all of you who can't look away from this post to read "Parasite Rex," IT'S FREAK'N AWSOME!

The whole proboscus thing is new to me too. This site is to full of edutainment. ;)

June 18, 2007