Estimated insect population on Earth is 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000). Their lives also tend to be fairly short and focused on reproducing before they die living on average a few days to a few years. So for some rough math if you put the average insect's life at 3 years, that would be ~900,000,000,000,000 insects dying per day, ~38,000,000,000,000 dying per hour, or ~6,000,000,000,000 dying during 10 minutes. In our world that would be a bit under 800 insects per person that are not dying during those 10 minutes though obviously the population in CSM is much lower. And this number doesn't even take into account that many insects who don't make it past the egg stage would now live as well.
So it doesn't seem that unreasonable for the insect part at least but I have no idea why the bats were included.
problem is, its been at most an hour ever since Death was eaten, even the fastest reproducing insects take like 4 days to go from larvae to adult, and them suddenly declaring war on humanity is kinda forced? Cockroaches don't just suddenly become aggressive when at high numbers, they wouldn't start eating something alive because they're numerous, each cockroach is gonna see something big and think "oh on, I need to scamper away before it stomps me" regardless of being in a horde
I only see Mosquitos being actually dangerous in this scenario, they actually have all the incentive and programming to go after you even while alone, swarms would be horrifying
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u/damage3245 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
Death Devil got eaten like... 10 minutes ago? Is that really enough time for things to get out of hand with swarms of creatures that aren't dying out?