Hagulbee

The hagulbee split from its ancestor, the bambelin. Even having half size of its ancestor, it has few physical differences. The last tail scales can move freely and allow it to see the space bellow more easily, also protecting the cloacae. The tip of the wings is rounded, allowing it to sit and crawl over the devilvine without pierce it and incite a reaction. Other change is the development of five tiny teeth around its mouth, used to bite the exterior wall of devilvine’s flower.

When reproducing, hagulbees go into the caves and take a long time to end. It sits over the bottom part of a devilvine’s flower and bites it, introducing saliva in five spots. The saliva has special molecules which induce changes in the growth of the affected region. These molecules affect the plant’s DNA and can revive dormant genes, creating a body similar to the fruit, but in smaller scale and without the germinative structures. Some hours after the contact, the devilvine starts to grow a structure similar to a tiny bowl in that place. When it begins to grow the hagulbee will crawl up, bite another spot and lay 3 to 7 eggs into the bowl. This process can repeat several times, until it laid all the eggs. When it is finished, the hagulbee will return to its first nest and close it with silk, doing the same with all the others. Some days after, these structures will be full-grown and will resemble tiny spiky fruits. Several hagulbees can share the same flower; it will keep being used until they find a place to sit, crawl over and lay their eggs, even if the flower already has spikes.

In these structures, the internal part is sticky and keeps the eggs fixed. They don’t produce acid, since they were produced only from the covering tissue; but near to its base, after the thin exterior wall of devilvine, the acid veins flow. After the hatching, some offspring will crawl through the wall and remove the silk cover. Most of them will try leave eating the wall of the nest, which is rich in nutrients. However, if they eat the wrong wall, they will destroy the nest. If they go in direction to the nest’s base, they will let the devilvine’s acid flow and dissolve the nest and the offspring; being absorbed by the hairs of the flower.

Leaving the nest, they will crawl through the walls of the flower and wait until the wings dry. Ready to fly, they can go search for food. Approximately a third part of the offspring is lost during the hatching process but, by this way, the hagulbee can better protect the nest, since most of the creatures avoid the devilvine. The plant also is beneficed, since it doesn’t need to blow up to catch food, also having a more dreadful aspect due to those spiky structures. After digest the nests, the plant is able to regenerate that region.