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Found this on my toe after swimming in a lake [Solved: Leech] (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Jessica@lemmy.world to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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It was in a small lake in Washington, and I noticed it as I was about to drive home.

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[–] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Baby leech

[–] Weborl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo♫

[–] Jessica@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For real?

[–] mykl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Looks like it 🙁. If you can bear to open this post again could you edit the title to add [SOLVED]? Thanks!

[–] Robdor@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah that's a larval state candiru. Here's a little video that talks about them.

https://youtu.be/K7SLWF_by-E

I used to see those all the time when I was making all of this up.