Editing Breed (section)

====Imago Stage====
In their final form, the creatures develop a number of natural weapons, including a shotgun spit composed of pellets which dissolve into a flesh-melting acid.<ref name="26.1 e1">“They start off the size of a lemon, lurk in spots where they can get access to orifices or sites of injury, or like you see here, corpses.  Inside beer bottles, in toilet bowls, bedcovers, on the underside of kitchen tables, even inside food.  Then they burrow inside, wait until the target is still and quiet for an hour or two, paralyze the target, and emit pheromones to call others of their kind to them.  They devour the target from the inside out, molt once or twice as they digest the fats and proteins they ate, then find a new target.  It’s a process that takes a week to two weeks, depending on the availability of food sources.”<br/><br/>I could see Getaway shift position, folding his hands behind his back, as if he could shield his rear end.  His mouth had shut into a firm line.<br/><br/>His nose was still unprotected, I noted.<br/><br/>Even Rachel seemed a little concerned.  She glanced at her dog.<br/><br/>“They aren’t a danger to us,” I said.  “Probably.  They choose easier targets over harder ones, and there are enough corpses around here that we aren’t worth the trouble.  What we should worry about is the later stages.  When they’re about the size of a full-grown human being, they’ll do two or three major molts with big physical changes, gaining some natural weapons, including a pellet-spit that kind of acts like a shotgun blast with fragments that dissolve into flesh-melting acid.”<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>“Read his file,” I answered.<br/><br/>“Shouldn’t we kill them before they get big?”  Foil asked.<br/><br/>“Not worth the time it would take to track them down,” I said.  “We don’t have any strong offensive powers, they’re durable against stuff like conventional ammunition and physical blows, and he generally produces about nine or ten per day.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/18 Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.1]]</ref>