How to Catch Wild Leeches? Introduction to Several Practical Methods

Everyone knows that leeches have high medicinal value. When farming them, we first need to catch wild leeches to lay eggs. Let's take a look at how to catch wild leeches.

Methods for catching wild leeches

Make a small-mouthed cage from fine gauze netting, tie two pieces of cut pork liver or slit loach to the middle position near the bottom of the cage, and place it at night in ditches, ponds, rivers or canals where there are leeches. When the leeches smell the scent of blood, they will swarm into the cage one after another. Come to collect the cage just before dawn the next day, and you will harvest quite a few wild leeches.

The living environment of wild leeches

Leeches mostly live in freshwater, with a few living in salt water, and some are terrestrial and amphibious. Among them are species that live by sucking blood or body fluids, and also carnivorous species that prey on small animals. The leech commonly seen in rice fields is called the Japanese medical leech (Hirudo nipponia), which lives by sucking the blood of humans, livestock and frogs. In the mountain forests of Hainan Island and Taiwan, China, there live some land leeches, which often lurk in grass and on trees. After processing, leeches can be used as a valuable traditional Chinese medicinal material. In recent years, because chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other factors threaten their living environment, and because of predatory catching by humans, the wild resources of leeches have been decreasing day by day. To meet market demand, the artificial farming industry of leeches is developing rapidly.