It lives there in spun sand tubes under the sand surface, where it develops a complicated system of galleries.
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They live in sand tubes at the base of the host plant and feed on the young shoots before pupating in sand-cocoons.
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However, it has been shown to have high concentrations of lipids within its cytosol, which suggests that it may feed on bacteria from the sediment that makes up the " sand tubes ."
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Two specimens of " Pectinaria koreni ", a species of "'ice cream cone worm "', polychaete worms that build sand tubes that roughly resemble ice cream cones.