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The feeder is responsible for feeding the human population. The workers main job is to farm the green fungus that grows in the darkest parts of the hive. The feeder bugs then eat it. They don't however, digest it. Instead, they mix it with enzymes that help to bake it down and make is safe for human consumption. Mushrooms are otherwise toxic to humans. Once swallowed by the feeder it is sent into one of its crops to be churned and pulverized into a thick, milky-green past. When the process is finished, it is pushed down the tube into the waiting mouth of a hungry human. The paste is not tasty or even appetizing in the slightest but it does contain everything a lactating human body needs to make milk and live a health life. The bug can consume and excrete up to fifty pounds of mushroom a day making it an efficient and necessary part of the hive. The creature also consumes large amounts of water as its only other source is form it's host's breast milk and it hogs that water for it's self. Vary little of the energy it absorbs from it's host goes into making food for humans. This means that the human need not have vary large breast.
The bug has two main cambers for storing the paste it feeds the hive's “guests”. The first is in it's the abdomen at the base of it's body. You can see the bulging sack behind the hosts ass. This is where the mushrooms are taken to be broken down and neutralized for human consumption. Once it is safe for human consumption, it is transported to a large storage bladder in it's host's womb. This is one of the few permanent bonds in the hive due to this fact. Once coupled, the feeder bug never removes it's self from her body. Unless the badder in here womb were completely emptied, it would be impossible to do so.
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Posted by Firstfate 12 years ago Report
If only it were brighter in the hive, then I could say that bonding with that bug would be a make made in heaven XD
Posted by plantdigger 12 years ago Report
Thanks! :)