Insectoid behaviour
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The fourth instalment in the Incubator ʻverse - you may want to read the first three parts of the series (or reread them) to understand whatʻs going on here. Briefly: Earth has been conquered by an alien species of giant insects, who have discovered that humans make the perfect incubators to hatch and nurture their young. While an incubator is not being used by the nest's primary inhabitants, the cleaner beetles also need somewhere to lay their eggs.
A green cleaner beetle hummed around the ceiling, sucking up waste fluid that leaked from one incubator there before moving off, attracted to the newly empty incubator by its scent. The beetle was heavy with eggs that needed to be laid and it landed over the incubator, fluttering its wings mostly back under the iridescent wing-case as it waved its mandibles happily, tasting the air over the incubator.
Series
- Part 4 of The Incubator