>>34845129Bugs cannot be understood mentally, they are essentially living machines and are devoid of some forms of personality. Someone described as Psychic might have a hard time rationalizing this level of primitive, reactionary, intelligence.
It is hard to use prediction to understand an insect, think along the lines of Descartes and his invention, the grid, invented to understand the mind of a fly.
Turns out we simply cannot, they are reacting to tiny, minute stimuli that cannot be perceived by us. They also make these decisions instantly.
Like dominos that never stop falling and you have to use a playing card to stop that events.
Also, aliens may or may not be adapted to small scale invaders. Bugs were not always that size and it’s easy to see why they have a swarm like effect that is overwhelming or foreign, bugs are uniquely Earth lifeforms and make up the majority of the “higher functioning” biomass of this planet, plankton aka “not ‘plants’”
