• Exosus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Well if you leech too many resources one of two things will happen:

    1. The host will remove you and kill you
    2. The host dies and you along with it

    A parasite becoming too greedy will seal its own fate.

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      You forget the 3rd option, I hire some worms to eat the roots of anyone that tries to stop me and I move onto the next tree.