Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water: Blood-sucking Snails

It’s okay, unless you’re a fish

Photo by Nariman Mesharrafa on Unsplash

I was bitten by a snail once. It wasn’t a surprise attack. I had seen a pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis) eating a dead tadpole and wondered if I could persuade it to do the same to my finger tip.