Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I wish it was just a bit faster or had a quick-start mode of some sort. During testing it scaled up a bit toooo fast so I tuned it down at the last minute, might have been a bad call. :)
PS - If you eat all the bugs, the game immediately advances to the next stage and you get a point bonus. So you can get through the early levels quicker if you play aggressively!