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Re: leeches

Subject: Re: leeches
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:37 pm ((PDT))
>  > Yeah. But what does one do for leaf leeches that drop down from the
>>  leaves above attaching them little selves to your exposed neck,
>>  shoulders, arms, etc?
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>>  Bernie
>Dunno. Advice welcome. A stretchy long sleeved fine mesh undershirt
>like Rynoskin works for
>well ticks and thus should work for leeches, but that doesn't keep
>them off your head.

...or outta you ears, eyelids, lips, or dimples.

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>Remarkable to see one moving quite rapidly across the cheek of
>companion who is
>completely unaware of the creature.

Ever record one? gives new meaning to that proverbial "sucking" sound.

BK

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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
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