Insect-O- Fact #3
“Baron Tarq the Sand Wasp”: Baron Tarq is a mean, evil, ruthless tyrant. I needed to choose an appropriately evil insect for his character. The Sand Wasps are natural predators. While they hunt and feed on a variety of insects the most favourable or consistent prey appears to be flies. This little tidbit could make for a rather interesting relationship between Tarq and Admiral Cree (Admiral of the Fly Federation).The Sand Wasps’ nests attract different parasitic flies, and wasps. The Sand Wasp has been known to feed even on the Wasp parasites. This is an extremely rare phenomenon in the Animal Kingdom. Wow. It doesn’t get much more ruthless or evil than that!

Insect-O-Fact #4
“Pheromones”: Pheromones, for me, are one of the most interesting aspects of this story and its potential. These pheromones, or Ecto-Hormones, are transported outside the body resulting in a direct developmental effect on hormone levels or behavioural change. These effects vary, just as the type of pheromones vary. There are Aggregation pheromones (like an insect booty call!), Alarm pheromones (often used by bees), Trail pheromones (ants use them when scouting for food), and many more!This puts a new meaning to ‘spidey senses’, and should surely add a new dynamic level of abilities to my creatures. I’m not using super powers in this series, but with innate abilities like this possessed by all insects, who needs super powers!?!