There are these strange little bugs that have ifnested my bathrooms and I think they are leeches. They have the probiscus and everything I’m pretty sure they are leecjes. They are about one centimeter long. I was baffled when i squished one because I found hair in it. Normally I thought leeches suck blood/ feed on earthworms. Am I confused or are these leeches confusing hair for worms? (Why are they in my bathroom, that’s quite odd, since I live in the suburbs of California and not some remote hut in Africa)
Do they look like this? I’ve never heard of leeches in California, much less infesting bathrooms, so I suspect you have them confused with another bug (though leeches are more worm-like than bug-like to me). I don’t think leeches have the mouthparts necessary to eat anything but blood sucked from the host.
Umm, yeah.
Leeches don’t really have a noticeable proboscis, nor are they anything like a bug. I think perhaps you use ‘leech’ to refer to something quite un-leechlike.
You’re confused.
You are correct that some leeches eat worms.
But, there are numerous species of leech in North America.
Since they hang out in water, mud, or moisture rich soil, I can’t see what they would be doing in your bathroom.
Finally, are you sure it was a hair? Not, say, a bug digestive tract or the main trunk of a bug circulatory system?
DId I say bug? They’re more like worm-like and look very similar to this I think they’re the terrestrial type since they’re not slimy. They’re extremely flat and dry. Maybe they could be living in the mildew in my bathroom,
but I mostly find them crawling along the tile using a proboscis-type thing to drag
along. I’m sure what I found inside was tiny segements of hairs unless there organs in leeches that look like hairs.
You may have leeches then, however what you saw was not a proboscis, which is almost invisible on a leech.
The hairlike things could have been embryonic leeches since some species are live-bearing or it could have been the excretory organs.
Could it have been frass?
I think you’ve got a few pillbugs.
No, I know what a pill bug is. I’m pretty sure it’s a leech. It has no legs, and it is very flat. The proboscis-type thing (It looks like a tiny eye stalk) is only visibly when it’s using it to move about. Are you guys sure that it’s never visible on a leech? I know aquatic leeches sort of swim about, but how are terrestrial leeches supposed to move? These things don’t wiggle, they drag themselves.
Sounds like a fnord to me.
idea 1. Post a picture so we can look at it
idea 2. Put one on your skin and see what happens
I think you have nematodes (most nematodes are microscopically small, but some species (including those that like bathrooms) are somewhat bigger.
Or better yet, soak your bathroom in gallons of bleach and radicate the suckers. Eeewww. 
Terrestrial leeches move in much the same manner as inch-worms, and it has nothing at all to do with any sort of probiscis. The move by folding the two ends of the body to meet each other, just as inchworms do.
My first thought was that you’ve got silverfish. They live in bathrooms, and they have proboscises. They eat… well, just about anything, really. I’m sure they’d chow down on hair.
I think I found the eggs, in a cotton bag (shudder, I use those). They’re tiny black specks, and they seem to be gone now. I am going to pretend I discovered an undiscovered species that could only survive in my bathroom and are now extinct.