Moving away from the general area where the meteor crashed, back to its prime hunting ground, grazing on the way, the bug picked up a new but stale scent. Following it, while snatching up grasses with its pincers and eating these, the bug eventually came across the cadaver of a warthog killed by the shockwave. Approaching it, the bug saw the familiar sight of a swarm of flies hovering over it. Initially, it tried to snatch them out of the air, but when that failed, it decided to try a different approach.
Tearning into the warthog, the bug bit off a chunk of meat, but didn't imediately eat it, instead holding it in its mouth with its mandibles wide open, the piece of meat serving as a lure for the flies. Waiting for a while to attract a decent number, the bug closed its mouth once it could feel the flies move around in it, then shallowed both them and the piece of meat. It repeated this until there were too few flies for it to bother with, then ate the rest of the warthog.
After finishing its meal, the bug moved on, grazing a little more until it was full, then dug a hole and cocooning itself. It would remain in its cocoon for seven minutes and twentyeight seconds, before eating its way out again, emerging being 2cm taller, and 3cm longer. In addition, its eyes had a red and green sheen to it, and the exoskeleton on its forehead had grown into a horn-like potrusion with a small hole at the tip.
Happily clacking its mandibles, it moved on, grazing as it went.
