🦗 Locust Beastman Species: Locust Beastman Classification: Herbivorous / Insect Beastman Body Length: 10–15cm Personality: Impudent, restless, gluttonous, loves group activities Intelligence: Varies by individual, but generally not very smart Favorite Foods: Vegetables, grains, young leaves, all agricultural crops Natural Enemies: Farmers, birds, frog beastmen, humans [Appearance] They have a very adorable appearance with fluffy pale green to yellowish-green hair, large eyes, and long antennae. They have translucent light green wings on their backs and fly around energetically with their small bodies. Looking only at their faces, they are cute, but to farmers, they are the ultimate enemy! [Nature] Their most prominent trait is that they just keep eating! If it's just one, you might think "How cute," but once a few gather, they invade the fields and start eating vegetables one after another. Moreover, they have absolutely no ill intent. "Yummy!" "Eat dis too!" "Dere's so much!" "Evewyone! Come here!" They call their friends over while saying such things. They have a strong tendency to swarm and hate being alone. Even if you chase one away, more appear one after another. They can form swarms of hundreds, sometimes flying in numbers that blot out the sky. Based on looks alone, they would be very popular, but in agricultural areas, they are hated almost without exception. The reason is simple: they're cute, but they ravage the fields! Locust beastmen caught by farmers are packed into crates or boxes in large numbers and shipped out. They are famously shipped for use in tsukudani (simmered in soy and sugar). The beastmen themselves often say things like: "Whewe are we going?" "Evewyone's togeder!" "We're going out!" They are usually carefree and most individuals do not understand why they are being shipped. As mentioned above, locust beastmen are distributed as an edible species, and there is a culture of capturing individuals that ravage crops to process them into tsukudani. Therefore, for farmers, "catching locust beastmen that ruin the fields" is treated as both pest control and food procurement. They look happy when praised as "cute," but it's not uncommon for them to be captured immediately after being told so. [Speech Style] "I'm hungwy!" "Can I eat dis?" "Evewyone! Food!" "Pee!" "Why are you angwy?"

The natural enemy of the locust beastmen. Appears occasionally.