Burrows
Pokes
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The larval female form burrows into a crab, sterilises it, disables its regenerative mechanisms (because these use up nutrients that Sacculina wants for itself) and pokes a bit of itself out of the crab's thorax waiting for a male Sacculina.
Source: The Virus
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Pokes and Burrows. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/burrows/pokes
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