It's a bit hard to make out in the photo, but there the center is a larger black insect being swarmed by dozens of small light brown ones. The larger one looks like some sort of beetle. What are the smaller ones?
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I somehow forgot to include a sentence from the properties section:
I think this implies they also drink the 'blood' of the beetle while being transported to another place.
Thanks. More creepy bug stuff I didn't know about. The beetle seemed inhibited if not incapacitated by them. It looked to me like a swarming attack, but it could have just been that there were so many that it couldn't easily move.