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Rare leech once commonplace in hospitals sighted in Dumfries and Galloway
ONE of the rarest invertebrates in Scotland, the medicinal leech, has been spotted in Dumfries and Galloway for the first time. The presence of the medicinal leech has been confirmed in three ponds near Carrick Shore on the Solway coast by Buglife, as part of the Scotland-wide conservation programme, Species on the Edge. Medicinal leeches are…