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[โ€“] Exosus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 10 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.