 The organism's slow metabolic rate allows time for nutrients in its feces to be replenished by bacterial action.It eats from dawn until sunset and sleeps through the night, and since it is heliotropic – with its head always pointing towards the sun – it also functions as a timepiece.The protagonist of "The Ark Sakura", known as Pig (though preferring to be called Mole), identifies with the clockbug and marvels at the resemblance he sees between himself and the insect.