Applied O.G.R.R. Test 3

Category: Arthropod (Live)
Date: 08.28.92, 10:18 AM
Location: O.G.R.R. Labs
Subject: Red Ant Worker
Mutator Response: None Observed
Supervising Scientist: Employee 221

Experiment Report:
Test number three (of no doubt many) was inconclusive, once again. Injection of fungal mutators into live arthropod tissue yielded no observable result.

Employee 352 was able to restrain the captured specimen as 418 breached the exoskeleton to inject fungal samples (progress, arguably), but even after an observation period, the mutators do not appear to have the same effect on live specimen than what we observed on locally grown Cucurbitaceae. Insects are not gourds, go figure!

Our current leading theory is that a mutagenic vector might be required to produce the kinds of tissue growth we’ve observed in pumpkin seeds, ideally combined with some sort of conductive solution to spread the enhanced tissue production through the creature.

But this is all a shot in the dark. We received an impossible task on frighteningly short deadlines. What were they thinking?!