I would think the bugs too small and light-weighted for that to happen as well. Having too little mass. Have you tried throwing a bug against a wall?
Also, that blast by Zaku should have exploded them. If they were real bugs. Yet they're insects of Kishimoto's imagination. They're as durable as he wants them to be. As Forbidden Technique showed, they were flying through Fuuton techniques when you'd expect their tiny wings to be having difficulty.
When you slap a bug, it survives but when you slap it against the wall it dies. Similarly, the fuuton isn't just merely going to throw the bugs at the wall/ground but it will also collide with the wall crushing the bugs.
Because his durability doesn't surpass Shikamaru or Tenten's by a decent amount. Even if it does, his ability to move about will be severely hindered.
His fight with Zaku had no hiding spots and yet still no one noticed the insects. Not just Zaku. No one. It's call "distraction". Just like Temari didn't notice Shikamaru's shadow until it was too late. Een at ies barely avoiding it because Shikamaru had a little more effort to give. Shino was always strategically maneuvering the bugs around when he was fighting Kankuro, as he was leading them to Kankuro's hiding while avoiding the puppet's attacks at the same time. There is also Shino's use of false attacks. If you have Shino hiding behind a tree and Temari goes around it, this could be Shino's strategy to keep her occupied to make his real move.
As I said before, the insects would provide a harder time for her than the shadows. Where they're slower than some attacks or movement, they make up for in numbers. How quick can Temari swing her fan one after another?
Kankuro and Zaku's style of attacking made them more prone to get caught off guard by Shino's bugs. Zaku began the fight
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. Zaku's arrogance and lack of intel ended up causing him to just stand there which allowed Shino to use the cover to release bugs which got to Zaku's backside. Temari has seen Shino's tactic so she isn't going to make the same mistake in standing at the same spot for over a second.
As for Kankuro, his own cover was used by Shino against him. He stayed at his hiding spot without making a move to get out and never once looked back because he didn't want to lose sight of Shino. On the other hand in your scenario, you say that Shino will already be out of Temari's LoS so she doesn't have to worry about that and can focus her attention to her blind spots as well.
Temari can swing her fan faster than Shino's bugs can approach her.
The idea would be to distract Temari and/or gets her to attack the false threat. The insects move faster than you think. They were advancing quickly enough to almost entirely cover Karasu and to appear in a large group unannounced in an open stadium. Even so, if attacked from the front Temari may be likely on instant response to attack them and not notice the quickly advancing threat behind her.
so they didn't travel a distance greater than 2 m. On the other hand, Shino will end up being over 10 m away from Temari much like Shikamaru if he does the same thing and retreat to the trees like you're saying. Same goes for the scenario against Zaku considering Shino was only a few metres away from Zaku. If Temari attacks the false threat, she'll immediately move right afterwards so as not to be within the cloud of smoke created by her own attack.
1. So the same thing Kankuro tried to do. Shino was able to use clones twice in quick session while still having enough to go on the offensive. To elaborate: he had enough insects for four separate tasks (twice clones, crawl up the chakra strings and cover Karasu, find Kankuro). And when a bug feint is deployed, there's no reason the insects can't be regrouped into a new task. It's not as if they died.
2. What is moving a few metres away going to do? It's an open area. Temari will have as much trouble hiding as Shino's insects would. They could just gradually box her in. If she's on the move to avoid a group of insects, she's going to be unaware of another group.
1. Like you said, his bugs can be reused so the two clones didn't interfere with each other's bug supply. Then when Shino clogged up Karasu, he used the same bugs from his second insect clone. Kankuro failed because he stood in one spot too long being overconfident with his hiding spot.
2. If she moves a few metres away every second, the bugs that were approaching in a calculated manner now have to do the same thing differently as Temari's blind spot will have shifted. He can't gradually box her in if she doesn't stand in one location for too long. Her being unaware of another group doesn't matter because neither Shino nor his bugs will be aware of where Temari is going to move to. BTW, Temari will always be aware of what is right in front of her so she'll only move if the spot is clear so the bugs who were approaching her from behind are left behind.
A secret technique exclusive to the Aburame clan, where thousands, even myriads of insects are gathered in one place and pattern themselves after the caster's silhouette...! Seeing as it's elaborate enough to be mistaken for the original, it may be used as a decoy, or as part of a diversionary tactic. Furthermore, since one can put the insects in standby someplace beforehand, then have them assume the form of the clone, this jutsu is arguably even more effective than Kage Bunshin, depending on the task.
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-A writhing congregation of countless insects, assuming a human form!!
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-Once the offensive against him begins, he turns out to be a clone!!
Okay so I guess this is just Shino manipulating his insects to form himself as opposed to him creating a bunshin. Well the downside to this jutsu is that the bunshins can only move around slowly so after Temari realizes that Shino can use insect clones, she'll understand it's a clone when it can't even move like a regular human.
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. What you showed was a scene after where enough time had passed (the fight is skipped at this scene to show 4 pages of what others are doing before returning to Shino to show him on the offensive) for Shino to have leaned back on a tree and have his insects almost completely covering Karasu. Unless Shino has really good reaction speed, it's unlikely he'd have avoided that blade without being a clone.
Shino was in an open area when he used a clone. It was Shino at the start of the fight talking to Kankuro and Sasuke, then a clone when Kankuro made the second attempt at stabbing him. He'd have to have had a clone on standby during the conversation. So it should be possible to have a standby clone/insect group waiting behind one of the few trees.
No it doesn't. When Kankuro noticed the insects crawling on his chakra strings and Karasu, another group was already on him. Note that when he detached Karasu's head, he found his chakra depleted seconds after. As Shino explains, it was what he was planning at the start.
Shikamaru's shadow is not a living thing capable of vast movement. In short, the insects have no limit when it comes to range. Even if it takes more time than Shikamaru's shadows, they can at least move freely. Their "range" is the entire field.
It took one whole chapter for Shino to divert those bugs to get on him. That's completely different from Temari getting pressured by Shikamaru's shadows which take less than a page to capture Temari if she didn't bother moving out of the way. I thought Shino is the one manipulating the bugs which means they don't move freely.
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"thousands, even myriads of insects are gathered in one place and pattern themselves after the caster's silhouette...!"
"A writhing congregation of countless insects, assuming a human form!!".
Underlined: I don't think that would be helpful. It's just leaves.
So she ends up limiting her position and making it difficult for her to avoid the insects.
Taking off the leaves of the trees allows Temari to go airborne (
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) and scan the entire stadium without fail.
There's really no reason why he can't. It takes no chakra consumption, he had enough insects vs Kankuro to have a least three tasks -including being on Karasu and a little after on Kankuro-, and when the first clone is broken the insects can be reused for another clone.
