Beautiful photos!! I think the person to talk to is Dan Shain at Rutgers
Camden. I'm ccing him here, in case he misses the post.
There is actually quite a bit of variability in leech cocoon
moprhology...from the erps, to the thin transparent ones that are attached
to the parental venter in some glossphoniid species, to the foamy looking
ones produced by Hirudo. Your photos look most closely related to those of
Hirudo, which also generates loose cocoons in moist habitat.
DAW
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Charley Eiseman <ceiseman from gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>> I'm wondering if anyone has any insights about the striking leech egg
> cocoons shown here--regarding either the identity of the leeches, or how
> they are formed:
>https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/mystery-lakeside-jewels/> As stated in the blog post, they were found in Northwest Territories,
> Canada, under rotting, wet tree stumps in swampy lakeside habitat.
>> Thanks,
>> Charley Eiseman
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