Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Why is it that when one thing goes awry, other minor disasters seem to follow. The oak whisky barrels that fell apart this past winter hadn’t been replaced ...

Langstone, Hampshire: The pond is almost devoid of life, apart from several of these greenish-grey segmented worms burrowed into the silt at the bottom My wildlife pond has been leaking and, after ...

Dr. John Jellies—also known as "The Leech Guy"—was one of two researchers honored this fall with a Distinguished Faculty Scholar award, the highest annual honor WMU bestows on faculty members. Read ...

Leeches might seem like relics of a bygone age of medicine, but they haven’t outlived their usefulness to people yet. The freshwater leech Helobdella austinensis can eat its weight in snails every day ...

DEAR JOAN: A neighbor found a leech in her pond while cleaning off the algae. She only has one small koi left — thanks, raccoons. I’ve never personally seen a leech in real life before, but it ...

Mark Siddall, leech master, gets Neil de Grasse Tyson into shorty-shorts and then into a leech-infected Connecticut pond. Even manages to dispense some natural history along the way on leech family ...

I reassured him he wasn’t going to get nasty blood-sucking creatures attached to him every time he did pond work. There is only one species of leech in this part of the world that can do that, the ...