Question: is a leech an insect?
Answer: The leech is not a slug. Nor is it a bug, reptile or insect. Sometimes it is not slimy either. The leech is an invertebrate animal belonging to the phylum Annelida, a zoological category that includes more than 15,000 species of segmented bristle worms and 650 species of leeches in the subclass Hirudinea.