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Published: 2022-05-28 20:41:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 5887; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 0
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The Ticklite, a false friend, the antithesis of what means to be a Spurtlite
Spurtlites as a whole are known across all of Wallace II for being helpful symbiotes of larger megafauna by helping them remove parasites and dead tissues, however the Ticklite uses this well known symbiosis to its advantage, by cheating the system and sucking the blood of its supposed symbiotes
Ticklites jump ontop of their hosts and suck their blood, deceiving them to thinking they are normal spurtlites, before jumping off and seaking another host
This "sucking and jumping off" strategy lets them stay undercover by not letting their hosts get too familiarized to their pressence before they disappear
They do specially well in Cricketwasp colonies due to the abundance of hosts, however they are never too numerous for otherwise they might blow their cover and start to be driven off by the much bigger Cricketwasps
here's the spurtlite wiki if you wanna know more about their group:
wallace-ii-ben-g-thomas.fandom…
