Jessica@lemmy.world to What is this thing?@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoFound this on my toe after swimming in a lake [Solved: Leech]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1150arrow-down1imageFound this on my toe after swimming in a lake [Solved: Leech]lemmy.worldJessica@lemmy.world to What is this thing?@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejennwiththesea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 year agoWhen you search “baby leeches” a forum question comes up, and the folks there identify something that looks exactly like this is a Planaria flatworm. https://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/40506-anyone-know-what-these-are/
minus-squarewoefkardoes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoPlanaria have triangular heads like in the link you posted, I agree with the others that OP’s PIC is a leach.
![Found this on my toe after swimming in a lake [Solved: Leech]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ec97321a-f966-49f1-81d9-0ec1c5161e62.jpeg){kind=link}
When you search “baby leeches” a forum question comes up, and the folks there identify something that looks exactly like this is a Planaria flatworm. https://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/40506-anyone-know-what-these-are/
Planaria have triangular heads like in the link you posted, I agree with the others that OP’s PIC is a leach.