Flame beetle

Flame beetles lived in Kashyyyk's "multilayered deathtrap" ecosystem.
Ranging from 4 to 12 cm long, these pests could deliver an extremely painful bite. The dangerous potential of these creatures came not from their bite though, but their ability to spontaneously combust. This event normally occurs throughout a whole swarm of over 100 beetles; each beetle exploding with the effect of a fragmentation grenade.
Normally these beetles only swarm in the lower wroshyr forests, and when Wookiees do encounter them they can be driven off with simple smoke pots. During the War of the Ring a swarm of beetles set fire to Turren Lonarr's office. This was actually a distraction to cover his insertion of Trandoshan hunters into Kashyyyk.
In 1990, during Cal Kestis' mission to Kashyyyk, he encountered many flame beetles that assaulted him. He killed many to continue his mission.Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
In 2006, a spacer found a specimen of this species in a storage room of the Mensix Mining Facility on Mustafar.Star Wars Galaxies
==Behind the scenes==
Flame beetles appeared in the video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Sony and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.
==Appearances==
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*Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
*Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
*The Musketeers (1977) 91 
==Sources==
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
Category:Beetles
Category:Creatures of Kashyyyk
Category:Creatures of unspecified diet
Category:Species of undefined sentience