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"They for large colonies and decieve hungry animals and travellers. Be wary of red mushrooms or you might get eaten by mushants!"


Species name: Mushant

Species: Heavily mutated beetle

Chosen desing elements: Mushrooms, ant hiearchy and beetle anatomy. i wanted to make something that could camouflage as ordinary things, orgininally i thought of making a giant stick bug acting as a tree, but i ended up with these faux mushrooms. 

Description: The mushant is a heavily mutated beetle which has mushrooms on its back, forming a protective shell for them, their nest hiearchy works like with ants that the monarch makes more workers and warriors. these ant like creatures dont use eggs for babies, oddly enough they grow out of spores that the monarch spreads around. if the new mushant is a male it will become a warrior that has a big mushroom cap as a shell and strong jaws, the warriors can survive being stepped on if they are in their camouflage position. And if the new mushant is a female it can split into 2 different things, either a worker, or if the monarch is dead 1 of the developing females is chosen by random and grown to be a monarch, this process is done by exposing the developing mushant to spores, so it will be covered in mushrooms. all mushants have a different style of cap on their back, and the monarch is the only one that has multiple mushroom caps on it. These creatures are omnivores and prefer meat, they can lure hungry animals to the mushrooms they looks like and trap and kill them. the actual mushroom cap on the back of the mushant is poisonous and never worth eating. These creatures pose no value to be hunted for, as they are in edible to humans, but if left alone they can decrease the amount of wild animals nearby, this can be good or bad.




and im still torn on what artstyle i should use ;-;
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OH CRAP they are HUGE!!!! Terrifying............