"Drone: Follow sap slug approaching the tree trunk on this vein. Video feed and continual scans from one meter distance. Relay to my scanner and Celina's," Rafael ordered the drone verbally. It was some distance away but was listening for his voice with a directional microphone. It flew to the position one meter below the sap slug that Celina was observing.
The slug was inching its way closer to the tree trunk. It was about one meter away as the drone took up position and began sending the feed. Celina and Rafael watched their scanners, anticipating that the slug would make the turn and begin traveling down the trunk to the ground. Instead, the bloated sap slug stopped moving when it firmly butted up against the tree trunk, the length of its body still on the frond vein.
"If what I suspect is correct, this should be interesting," Rafael commented. Celina glanced at him briefly before looking back to her scanner's video screen. "Drone: move the observation angle to 45 degrees."
