Carrion beetles

There is a species of insect on Daedalus, like a carrion beetle, which has a short stubby tail with a stinger on the tip of it. This species is capable of reproducing asexually and normally lays eggs when it has accumulated too many for the capacity of its body.

Most of these eggs die because they require a warm dark humid place for them to hatch successfully and there are few places that meet the requirements on the surface of Daedalus. So this beetle locates a victim to sting and injects its eggs under the skin of another living creature. The eggs are provided with a living hatchery that provides the absolute perfect conditions for them to develop and hatch successfully.

Mondite soldiers who were stung by them, came down with what is dubbed as 'Hatching Fever'. Human body attempted to kill off the eggs like it was fighting an infection only to make their host body more accommodating. The eggs are microscopic and undetectable at first and when they grow it is too late.

Technician Odon was stung while handling the specimens.