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Most of Hydra and Leeches

Most of Hydra and Leeches. By: Jessi Marie and Stacey Lynn. Hydra. By: Jessi Marie and Stacey . All about Hydra. Hydra are fresh water jellyfish. In the Great Plains several species of hydra have been recorded.

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Most of Hydra and Leeches

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  1. Most of Hydra and Leeches By: Jessi Marie and Stacey Lynn

  2. Hydra By: Jessi Marie and Stacey

  3. All about Hydra • Hydra are fresh water jellyfish. • In the Great Plains several species of hydra have been recorded. • Hydra are most common of these and are widespread in clean waters throughout North America. 

  4. Habitat and Foods • Habitat-In the Great Plains several species of hydra have been recorded. • Hydra are most common of these and are widespread in clean waters throughout North America.  • Food-To be eaten prey are paralyzed • They paralyze by neurotoxins released from tiny stinging organelles.

  5. Life stages of the Hydra. • This is a budding hydra. The things like arms are the baby hydra. Soon after that they part off and become there own.

  6. Leeches Also by us(:  Ew!

  7. About Leeches • Leeches are like blood-sucking worms. • They have two different ways to suck blood. • One they use a proboscis to puncture your skin • Or two they use their three jaws and millions of little teeth.

  8. Habitat and Foods • Leeches live just about anywhere in slow water. • Algae is also there food besides drinking peoples blood • They detect skin oils, blood, heat, or even the carbon dioxide you breathe out to find you in the water.

  9. They aren’t always bad • Doctors can also turn to leeches for help. • Doctors use leeches to help restore blood circulation to grafted tissue and reattached fingers and toes. “For example: micro surgeons in a Boston hospital used leeches to save the ear of a 5 year old boy that had been bitten off by a dog.”

  10. Work sites. • http://www3.northern.edu/natsource/INVERT1/Hydra1.htm • http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates/hydra.html • http://www.leeches.biz/about-leeches.htm

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