Lickworm

The lickworm split from its ancestor and moved to a very unique niche, the mouths of the hornsniffers. They can be found wherever the hornsniffer are and spend almost all of their lives on their backs and inside their mouths. They feed on food stuck on the hairs and mandibles in their hosts’ mouths and therefore are also beneficial to them. They have evolved two long and powerful tongue-like hemipenes they use to grab the food particles and put them into their hidden belly mouth. They can still secrete a sticky substance from their feet that helps them grab on their hosts when in danger. They can also still “click” jump when in dire need, usually when they accidentally almost get eaten. Up to about 5 lickworms can live on a hornsniffer but this may cause competition and violence in the form of hemipenes whipping and bashing. They meet to mate usually when two of their hosts meet to mate as well and use this opportunity to move from host to host. Also desperate lickworms who are kicked from the host by others can sometimes leaves the host when it lays its eggs and wait until a new hornsniffer will hatch and move on it. In the winter it hibernates along with its hosts.