Look at the bright side—your lower extremities will be unavailable to the bugs. Leech expert Roy Sawyer, who grew up in the swamps of South Carolina, wrote after coming here in 1975 ...

Researchers manually removed a specimen and three others like it for further study, later revealing it to be a new species of “bloodsucking land leech,” according to a study published April 8 ...

Upperclassmen at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School represented Leech Lake at the 2025 Close Up Native Youth Summit in Washington, D.C.