Common Bugs and Arachnids

Throughout Levis there are various creepy crawlies who bring life and curiousity to the world that aren't completely strange or bio-created. These are their stories.

Death's door spider

The death's door spider is a white spider that lives in the weeping eucalyptus and various other white flowered plants and trees. It sleeps within flower buds in the day, spinning and repairing its web during the sunset before awaiting its feast at night. Its web is often erratic and broken, and laden with corpses that it uses a special fluid to preserve. The design of its web is so that flying insects are tricked into thinking the web is weak and can be pushed through, only to get caught in its strong silk. The strength of this silk has led those with more ambition than sense to collect some of these spiders, collecting the webs each morning and feeding the spiders each night themselves.

Western marsh moth

Habitating around the wet areas of Levis, namely the Digitos Mangroves, the western marsh moth has a brown body, black wings with grey markings. They have no mouths, but their larvae eat a mix of soft skinned grubs, and half decomposed leaf matter. The most striking thing about them is their death- dances, mating dances that happen on the first hot day of the summer, so that they may lay their eggs and give the larvae the entire summer to work the mangrove floor.

Green shimmer-scorpion

Maxxing out at 5cm, these small scorpions live in the desert to the east of Saburra, a danger to travellers and native creature alike. They bury deep in the sand, coming up only to mate and feed, their bodies designed to allow them to swim under the sand as they sense vibrations. While usually subsisting on small lizards and mammals, the shimmer-scorpion tends to pool around areas of moisture and as the summer droughts come in, whole areas can be swarming with the scorpion and they will work together to take down larger creatures.

The spotted laughing louse

Also known as the Phrenakee, this wood boreing creature makes a high pitch ee-ee-ee as it moves, with uneven gate, its 12 legs spread unevenly between thorax and abdomen. Their exoskeletons are spotted yellow on black, with bright yellow limbs, and they specialise in living in the bark of trees and the leaf litter around the base of the forests. They are the favoured food of many small mammals and birds, and for this reason they survive by having massive waves of young, which they carry in forearm pouches until they are large enough to form a hardened outer shell.

Crimson Horned Beetle.

A decomposer that fills the floor of the Forbidden Forest and Gnarled Grove, a cousin to the Black-Dappled beetle of the forests near Vertus and the Blue Horned beetle of Solaris, the Crimson beetle sits at 5cm due to absorbing the red residue surrounding the ruins inside the Gnarled Grove. Breeding this into their bloodline, the beetles are omnivorous, with a crown of three curled horn sets and a hard carapaced body. Mating battles between the larger females are sights to behold.

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See Also

Electrumpede A bio engineered centipede like vehicle.

Aphidelites servitor like creatures modelled from aphid DNA

Circuitbreaker bug A magic eating Levis pest

Glow-eyes Crustaceans from the mangroves with bioluminescent patterns