Leech cocoon on fifty pence coin for scale. Eggs are laid inside the cocoon and usually at the edge of ponds in mossy damp area
Medicinal Leech farm at Hendy South Wales UK Biopharm Ltd European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis THe double sexed hermaphrodite leeches come out of the water to lay their eggs in a cocoon
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