RE: About those Piranha Bugs - LOOOOONG

oglover Wrote:

>Why 'prohibitive'? There is no indication of the speed of flight,
duration
>before return to nest, maybe loooong hibernation periods between
periods of
>activity, in which case they literally strip the cpountryside bare for
>kilometers in diameter but sleep for 9 months or more between risings?
So
>many factors are unknown about the ecosystem these critters live in
based
>upon the short description in the game scenario.

Possible.  But if this is the case, then those bugs are going to want
the 
countryside teeming once the fly to eat again.	They aren't going to
want 
another colony nearby stripping i bare in the meantime.  Which means 
territorialism, which means one colony per given range.  When they do
fly, 
the more there are, the farther out they have to fly to get enough to
feed 
all the bugs.	Fly to far, and you're burning too many calories to
justify 
the flight for what you can collect from the kill.  This means a
relatively 
limited hive population, to economize on energy.

Brian B2

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