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What is the headcrab lifecycle? Does a headcrab drop its host after a while? Does it need a host to grow to the final (I assume) stage - the gonarch? Do the ones with hosts even grow to the final stage?
I found a website with some "facts" but I think it is almost definitely fabricated.