In its macroscopic life stage, the scrabies is an ambush predator, typically hiding among dense foliage or leaf litter where it retracts its body into an innocuous, globular pod. Once prey draws within reach, it springs to its full length, digs its hooked claws into any exposed tissue and siphons bodily fluids until the victim is little more than crumpled skin and bone. A scrabies despises extended, direct combat, always preferring to hide somewhere and lie in wait.