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Is this a leech?
Splandy
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Apologies if this is the wrong place for this, wasn't sure which forum it should be posted in.
I thought it was a green slug at first but definitely not a slug. It's quite long when it stretches out. What should I do with it? It's in the area I'm trying to dig out.
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I think it's a horse leech http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/horse-leech
Not seen one of those for years and years.
I'd put it among some damp stones near a pond/ditch or similar.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Looking at the ribbed body I'd say yes.
I was coming to terms with the fact that my soil is pretty wet but not so wet it would have a leech living in it. Maybe I will take it down to the canal in a jar. I don't have a pond, does that mean it's been living underground?
Probably been living in the damp among those stones. I imagine it'll be happy in or near the canal.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They're not stones... I'm digging a lot of junk out of my clay soil and that is a tarpaulin I have found buried underground with a lot of dry clay on it. Very strange!