User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Gore Magala/@comment-5020152-20150620133040/@comment-5569775-20150621175655

It reminds me of a botfly/hydra mix, in the way it reproduces. Hydra's produce buds in their cell wall, which grow to mini adults before separating from the parent. The hair's are like the buds and when time to separate fall off or can be forcibly scattered by the parent.

The botfly reproduces by laying it eggs on a host and when the eggs hatch the larvae burry into the hosts body and grow within. The Magala buds scattered as hair attach to prey and make their way inside, infecting the prey in the process and finish growing inside them.