Why would she not be blunt? She is the core of a hive, hers is the opinion that matters. She doesn't care to dance around things, it is inefficient.

[Many things. For one thing, invasive species coming to this world. There are plants that are not from this region, and likely not from anywhere nearby. They were brought by the tunneling metal. They were made, clearly, by things not like us, and they started to change the world.]