yolk. The eggs hatch into larvae which develop either into "Kwama Foragers" or into "Scrib" (the bugs that keep waking me up), which develop further into "Kwama Workers": massive insects the size of two calves side-by-side. Like any colony insect, each hive has a queen that does all the laying.
The eggmines are started with a newborn queen - all the Kwama are used to the miners' scent from the day they come into existence and so consider them part of the mine. The miners' told me flatly to watch out for the warriors, and nothing more.
I continued much deeper into the mine before I saw one of the
warriors - both were down a branch off from the main tunnel. I admit here, plainly in writing, that they are terrifying. I have never seen an insect that large and despite my best efforts, the strength of my curiosity pales in comparison to my gut reaction. A "Kwama Warrior" is just a Kwama Forager that has replaced the head of a Worker, and is somehow fused into its carapace minus the abdomen (and hence its hind legs), forming what looks a bipedal, insectoid knight with a massive grub for a head, easily two or three heads taller than me. My theory is that the Foragers kill or wait for a worker to die, cannibalize the abdomen and head, and replace the worker's inner