{"id":4071,"date":"2023-04-07T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2023-04-07T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T09:16:10","slug":"haemopis-sanguisuga-or-horse-leech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/haemopis-sanguisuga-or-horse-leech\/","title":{"rendered":"Haemopis sanguisuga or Horse Leech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Haemopis sanguisuga<\/em> or Horse Leech can grow up to 10 cm long. Although this specimen is much smaller. They don&#8217;t actually feed off horses or suck blood, they are rather aggressive predators that either in fresh water or, as in this case, in wet grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/horse-leech-Co-Roscommon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/horse-leech-Co-Roscommon-802x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Haemopis sanguisuga or Horse Leech\" class=\"wp-image-4072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/horse-leech-Co-Roscommon-802x1024.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/horse-leech-Co-Roscommon-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/horse-leech-Co-Roscommon-768x981.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/horse-leech-Co-Roscommon.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horse leeches have five pairs of eyes and three sets of teeth. They prey on invertebrates and small amphibians and fish. After photographing, I <em>carefully<\/em> put it back into the water.  They are relatively common in Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This specimen was caught in County Roscommon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haemopis_sanguisuga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">wikipedia<\/a>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haemopis_sanguisuga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haemopis_sanguisuga<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haemopis sanguisuga or Horse Leech can grow up to 10 cm long. Although this specimen is much smaller. They don&#8217;t actually feed off horses or suck blood, they are rather aggressive predators that either in fresh water or, as in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/haemopis-sanguisuga-or-horse-leech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}