well, it should have mouths - otherwise feeding it will get its fur all messy.
clearly you just missed the part of the story where the anthunter's upper-body nextar glands gradually concentrated into particular reasons and became more specialized feeding glands, while the symbiote's feeding pores became mouths that attached to them (part of this story is a lot like the probably evolutionary history of mammary glands in modern mammals) this was adaptive because it reduced wasted nectar at some stage in the development, and since juvenile flatterpillars presumably had mouths, it wasn't like the symbiote was having to figure out an entirely new piece of feeding machinery.
the wild symbiote identified feeding glands by a pheromone combination which it cannot distinguish from star anise, so grinding a little star anise into your drier lint will make the flannel precieve it as food. care must be taken to wash ones hands after handling star anise in the kitchen, however, unless one doesn't mind having them licked clean by the flannel.
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clearly you just missed the part of the story where the anthunter's upper-body nextar glands gradually concentrated into particular reasons and became more specialized feeding glands, while the symbiote's feeding pores became mouths that attached to them (part of this story is a lot like the probably evolutionary history of mammary glands in modern mammals) this was adaptive because it reduced wasted nectar at some stage in the development, and since juvenile flatterpillars presumably had mouths, it wasn't like the symbiote was having to figure out an entirely new piece of feeding machinery.
the wild symbiote identified feeding glands by a pheromone combination which it cannot distinguish from star anise, so grinding a little star anise into your drier lint will make the flannel precieve it as food. care must be taken to wash ones hands after handling star anise in the kitchen, however, unless one doesn't mind having them licked clean by the flannel.