Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
wlmina@mstdn.in.th ("Willamina") wrote:
@jonny not sure how weird this is, but female Rhizocephala barnacles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizocephala) inject themselves into crabs and grow their body into some sort of root-like system throughout the crab’s body – and males then inject themselves into the female which injected themselves into the poor crab