Massai Mara, Kenya - 0:55 AM
After spending nine minutes in its cocoon, the bug ate it and crawled out of its tunnel, no longer moving with a limp. After shaking the paws and were wounded about and stretching, the bug tore off the material it had covered its wounds with and ate it, no longer having a use for it now that the wounds were healed, there only being a discolouration on the exoskeleton where the wild dog's teeth had pierced.
After eating some grass, the bug tried to fly again, but like all the times before, couldn't stay in the air more then a couple of seconds before falling down. Irritated, the bug trampled on the ground while clacking its mandibles, then moved on, eating whatever it came across until it had consumed eight times its body weight, whereupon it cocooned itself again.
Massai Mara, Kenya - 3:31 AM
After over two and a half hours of eating tens of kilos worth of vegitation, insects, rodents, lizards and small herbivores and cocooning itself, the bug ate its current cocoon, positioned in a tree of which it had eaten all the leaves. It emerged being 48cm tall, 87cm long, with harier legs, larger pincers, its head being slightly larger in proportion to its body, a longer neck, and a slightly wider abdomen. Once its cocoon was eaten, the bug sat still in the tree for a few moments, then leapt out of the tree and tried to fly. Finding it could still only fly for a couple of seconds before plummiting down, the bug shot a string webbing from its abdomen at a tree branch and held on to the strand with its hind legs. Swinging towards the trunk of the tree, the bug stuck to it, cut the web strand, then climbed down, confused why it was having such a hard time with flying.